We investigate possible racial discrimination in the context of discretionary parole release. We develop a rational … 1983 and 2003 in the U.S. We apply the outcome test methodology recently used to assess racial profiling in police search … minority and White prisoners become marginal from the perspective of their probability of parole violation. Parole boards …

intensities and discrimination (Becker 1957) due to an appearance-based employer disutility factor. Because these sources affect …’s disutility from certain workers, are identifiable using standard labour market survey data. We demonstrate identification using … data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Estimation of these parameters by matching moments from a sample of …

The NBA provides an intriguing place to test for taste-based discrimination: referees and players are involved in …

key ingredients: creditor discrimination and crowding-out effects. Creditor discrimination arises because, in turbulent …

discrimination. Using data collected in the 1980 Women and Employment Survey, we find that women's wages would be between 20 and 25 … per cent higher in the absence of discrimination. This is somewhat higher than previous estimates have indicated. …

We adopt a general equilibrium approach in order to measure the effects of recent immigration on the Western German … period 1987-2001, we find that the substantial immigration of the 1990's had no adverse effects on native wages and … as `flexible' as the UK labour market, it would be more efficient in dealing with the effects of immigration. …

We study a model of intra-European trade flows and trade between Europe and the rest of the world for 29 manufacturing …