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Gersbach, Hans; Fahrenberger, Theresa - 2008

In this paper we propose minority voting as a scheme that can partially protect individuals from the risk of repeated …: voting winners, voting losers, and absentees. Under minority voting only voting losers keep the voting right in the second … period. We show that as soon as absolute risk aversion exceeds a threshold value minority voting is superior to repeated …

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Do Minorities Misrepresent Their Ethnicity to Avoid Discrimination?

Kudashvili, Nikoloz - 2019

Georgian trustors discriminate against the ethnic Armenian minority group. We introduce an initial signaling stage to …

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The Impacts of COVID-19 on Minority Unemployment : First Evidence from April 2020 CPS Microdata

Couch, Kenneth A. - 2020

the Great Depression. This paper provides the first study of how the pandemic impacted minority unemployment using CPS …

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Investing in Influence : How Minority Interests Can Prevail in a Democracy

Skaperdas, Stergios; Vaidya, Samarth - 2021

How can the West’s economic and political polarization be explained? We argue that persuasive lobbying at various levels of government leads to systematic deviations of policies from those desired by the majority. Implemented policies diverge from the majority position despite centripetal...

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The Effect of Unfair Chances and Gender Discrimination on Labor Supply

Gagnon, Nickolas - 2020

Labor market opportunities and wages may be unfair for various reasons, and how workers respond to different types of unfairness can have major economic consequences. Using an online labor platform, where workers engage in an individual task for a piece-rate wage, we investigate the causal...

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Age Discrimination Across the Business Cycle

Dahl, Gordon B. - 2020

A key prediction of discrimination models is that competition in the labor market serves as a moderating force on employer discrimination. In the presence of market frictions, however, recessions create excess labor supply and thus generate opportunities to engage in discriminatory behaviors far...

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Discrimination in Hiring Based on Potential and Realized Fertility : Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment

Smarzynska Javorcik, Beata - 2019

Due to conventional gender norms, women are more likely to be in charge of childcare than men. From an employer’s perspective, in their fertile age they are also at “risk” of pregnancy. Both factors potentially affect hiring practices of firms. We conduct a largescale correspondence test...

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Explicit and Implicit Belief-Based Gender Discrimination : A Hiring Experiment

Barron, Kai; Ditlmann, Ruth; Gehrig, Stefan; … - 2022

Understanding discrimination is key for designing policy interventions that promote equality in society. Economists have studied the topic intensively, typically taxonomizing discrimination as either taste-based or (accurate) statistical discrimination. To reveal the limitations of this taxonomy...

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Gender Discrimination in Competitive Markets

Marjit, Sugata; Oladi, Reza - 2022

We propose a competitive general equilibrium theory of gender discrimination in labor market where male and female workers are equally productive, but the female workers are deliberately paid less than the male due to subjective discrimination. Pioneering works of Becker (1957) and Arrow (1973),...

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The Summer Drop in Female Employment

Price, Brendan M.; Wasserman, Melanie - 2022

We provide the first systematic account of summer declines in women’s labor market activity. From May to July, the employment-to-population ratio among prime-age US women declines by 1.1 percentage points, whereas male employment rises; women’s total hours worked fall by 11 percent, twice...

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