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In this paper, the amount of income redistribution in the United States, the European Union, and Switzerland is compared and empirically related to economic, political, and behavioral determinants elaborated in the literature. Lying in between the two poles, Switzerland provides unique evidence...
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The standard measure of core or underlying inflation is the inflation rate excluding food and energy prices. This paper constructs an alternative measure, the weighted median inflation rate, for 38 advanced and emerging economies using subclass level disaggretion of the CPI over 1990-2021, and...
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markets in general, as well as informality, segregation and discrimination; iii) the transaction points of political …
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the employee representatives themselves? The survey findings generally confirm the observations based on the case studies …
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In bargaining between two sellers and one buyer on prices and quantities, strategic inefficiencies arise. By reallocating between the last agreement and the first, the buyer can increase it's share of the surplus. With symmetric sellers producing substitutes, the quantities in the first...
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objective of this study is to analyze the effect of political culture and of valuation asymmetry on discrimination between the … discrimination is an endogenous variable that characterizes the mechanism allocating the prize. We consider situations under which … effect of changes in the political culture and in valuation asymmetry on the designer's preferred discrimination between the …
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This paper surveys evidence on discrimination in Latin America and shows that there is a widespread perception of … discrimination, especially against the poor, the uneducated and those who lack connections. The channels through which discrimination … discriminatory practices in the region. This puzzle, where individuals perceive discrimination is in the air, but few act …
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policy of discrimination explains <p> a large fraction of the disparities in literacy across regions through 1998.However …
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Anonymous application procedures (AAP) are increasingly promoted as a way to combat employment discrimination. The idea …
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closings, which was borne out by data from the Displaced Workers Survey (DWS). In this paper, we take advantage of many more …
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