the regard human beings have for one another be it by gender, race, tribe or group has an impact on business and socio … does empowerment become discriminative and when does discrimination betray the more positive expectations of empowerment …

Ken Arrow (1998) asks, “What has economics to say about racial discrimination?” He replies – entirely correctly – that … racial “segregation within an industry – that is, firms with either all black or all white labor forces” – may be explained … by economic theory, but “the hypothesis of employer discrimination does not at all explain segregation by occupation …

discrimination, the conceptual reach of economic theory needs extension. I propose a generalization by assigning non … discrimination. …

, provides a lower bound on the extent of discrimination in the labor market. Taken at face value, our estimates imply that …The extent to which discrimination can explain racial wage gaps is one of the most divisive subjects in the social … consistent with a search-matching model in which employers statistically discriminate on the basis of race when hiring unemployed …

History is replete with overt discrimination on the basis of race, gender, age, citizenship, ethnicity, marital status … discrimination are not equally tolerable. For example, discrimination based on immutable or prohibitively unalterable characteristics … such as race, gender, or ethnicity is much less acceptable. Why? I develop a simple model of conflict which is driven by …