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economic costs to society of sexual-orientation discrimination were significantly more likely than those in a control group to … support equal employment opportunities based on sexual orientation. Information that the World Health Organization (WHO) does … not regard homosexuality as a mental illness increased social acceptance of sexual minorities, but only for those who …
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Discrimination against minorities is pervasive in many societies, but little is known about minorities' strategies to … Georgian trustors discriminate against the ethnic Armenian minority group. We introduce an initial signaling stage to … investigate Armenians' willingness to hide their ethnicity to avoid expected discrimination. 43 percent of Armenian trustees …
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COVID-19 abruptly impacted the labor market with the unemployment rate jumping to 14.7 percent less than two months … the Great Depression. This paper provides the first study of how the pandemic impacted minority unemployment using CPS …
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Religious adherence has been hard to study in part because it is hard to measure. We develop a new measure of religious adherence, which is granular in both time and space, using anonymized mobile phone transaction records. After validating the measure with traditional data, we show how it can...
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In the past decades unemployment in the Netherlands has gone down substantially. The main suspects responsible for this … decline are the growth of part-time labor, the reform of the benefit system and wage moderation. Nevertheless, in 2002 the … unemployment rate in the Netherlands has increased somewhat. However, since the huge decline in unemployment was due to structural …
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A substantial literature studies franchise extension, focusing primarily on class-based – rather than race …-based – voting restrictions. This paper constructs and analyzes a novel dataset that codes the presence of race-based restrictions on …
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I consider a market with two firms, a minority group of customers, and a bigoted (racist, ethnocentric, xenophobic, or … only the minority and a high-price firm serves only the majority. There is also a partial-integration equilibrium in which … a high-price firm serves only the majority while a low-price firm serves both the minority and majority. Paradoxically …
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American soldiers in the UK during World War II reduced anti-minority prejudice, a result of the positive interactions which …
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