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that such a concept of racism is not very helpful in understanding actual patterns of discrimination. Phenotype, ethnicity …In recent debates on "race" and "racism", a broad definition has emerged that encompasses phenotypic appearance as well … as ethnicity and religion. In addition, the "intersectional" interactions between these different characteristics are a …
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Multi-agency financial stability committees (FSCs) have grown dramatically since the global financial crisis. However, most cannot direct actions or recommend to other agencies that they take actions, and most would influence policy actions only through convening and discussing risks. We...
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immigrant characteristics and suggest that the observed effects may be primarily driven by experiences of discrimination and the …
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How did the large asylum-seeker inflow to Germany in 2015 affect concerns about immigration? Using individual-level panel data for the years 2012–2018, I show that after 2015 concerns about immigration increased by about 21 pp. and support for extreme right-wing parties by about 1.7 pp. These...
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We compile biographical information on more than 5,000 Prussian politicians and exploit newly digitized administrative data to examine whether landowning and landless elites differ in the extent to which they support health infrastructure projects. Using exogenous variation in soil texture, we...
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We analyze wage discrimination against foreign male workers in Germany with respect to different nationality groups and … discrimination itself we applied a tobit estimation procedure to the wage equation and carried out the usual Blinder …/Oaxaca decomposition in the second step. We found a slight discrimination against all foreign male workers together, but considerably …
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We measure the prevalence of discrimination between Jordanian host and Syrian refugee children attending school in … Jordan. Using a simple sharing experiment, we find only little discrimination. Among the Jordanian children, however, we see … correlated with the degree of discrimination, suggesting that discriminatory preferences are being transmitted through parental …
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Aggressive behavior against out-group members often rises during periods of economic hardship and health pandemics. Here, we test the widespread concern that the Covid-19 crisis may fuel hostility against people from other nations or ethnic minorities. Using a controlled money-burning task, we...
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Do people blame refugees for negative events? We propose a novel experimental paradigm to measure discrimination in … draw. We find evidence for reverse discrimination: Natives attribute responsibility more favorably to refugees than to … explain our finding of reverse discrimination, we rule out statistical discrimination as the driving force. We discuss …
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Real estate markets are subject to dynamic, ever-changing influences from location, amenities and neighborhoods; regulation, zoning and population changes; but also - macroeconomic variables, such as interest rates, inflation and economic cycles. The decision to buy or rent a durable,...
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