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Lohnspreizung und Effizienz
Schlicht, Ekkehart - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Wage Dispersion and Efficiency. It is often assumed that markets generate efficient allocations, but these are not necessarily fair. The widening of wage differentials that is currently observed is interpreted in this manner: Skill-biased technological progress increases demand for skilled work...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005187319
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The dynamics of personal income distribution and inequality in the United States
Kitov, Ivan; Kitov, Oleg - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
predict the dynamics of personal incomes for every single person in the working-age population in the USA between 1930 and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259180
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Multi-battle contests
Konrad, Kai A.; Kovenock, Dan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
We study equilibrium in a multistage race in which players compete in a sequence of simultaneous move component … contests. Players may win a prize for winning each component contest, as well as a prize for winning the overall race. Each …
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NEA presidential address: identity, markets, and persistent racial inequality
Mason, Patrick L. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
. In particular, we seek to examine whether race is best understood as a set of values and behaviors or whether race is …
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Applying relevant ethical theories to equality
Punabantu, Siize - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
the regard human beings have for one another be it by gender, race, tribe or group has an impact on business and socio …
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Why is the Workplace Racially Segregated by Occupation?
Naqvi, Nadeem - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
to discriminate. Economic theory is, therefore, endogenously color-blind, race-blind, gender-blind, ethnicity-blind, and …
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Impossibility of interpersonal social identity diversification under binary preferences
Naqvi, Nadeem - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Diverse identities, some socially shared, arise from a person’s affiliation with multiple overlapping communities, which are non-disjoint subsets of persons in society. I prove that identification of each individual with binary preferences or their utility function representation, commonplace...
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Racial Disparities in Job Finding and Offered Wages
Fryer, Roland G.; Pager, Devah; Spenkuch, Jörg L. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
consistent with a search-matching model in which employers statistically discriminate on the basis of race when hiring unemployed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323470
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The role of neighborhood characteristics in mortgage default risk: evidence from New York City
Chan, Sewin; Gedal, Michael; Been, Vicki; Haughwout, Andrew - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
of black residents, regardless of the borrower’s own race. We explore possible explanations for this second finding and …
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Race and Marriage in the Labor Market: A Discrimination Correspondence Study in a Developing Country
Arceo-Gomez, Eva O.; Campos-Vázquez, Raymundo M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
market using official statistics since race can only be inferred from native language. Moreover, employers may think that …
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