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The Urgent Need for an Economics of “Hategoatism”
Payson, Steven - 2019
The word “scapegoat” is defined as “a person made to bear the blame for others,” and similarly, “scapegoatism” refers to “the act or practice of assigning blame or failure to another, as to deflect attention or responsibility away from oneself” (Collins English Dictionary and...
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The role of conflict in sex discrimination: The case of missing girls
Mavisakalyan, Astghik; Minasyan, Anna - 2018
Recent evidence shows that highly skewed sex ratios at birth are observed not only in China and India, but also for a number of countries in the Southeast Europe and South Caucasus - a region that has seen eruptions of conflicts following the collapse of communist regimes. Yet, the role of...
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Social Identity and Perceived Income Adequacy
Goel, Deepti; Deshpande, Ashwini - 2018
Economists are increasingly interested in subjective well-being, but the economic literature on perceptions of income adequacy, which is one of the factors that shapes subjective well-being, is small. Our paper fills this lacuna in the literature. We utilize nationally representative data on...
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Beyond the Stigma of War: Russian Migrants in Kazakhstan's Labour Market
Abdulla, Kanat; Mourelatos, Evangelos - 2024
In this study, we investigate the employers' attitude towards Russian migrants in Kazakhstan's labor market. We conduct a field experiment by sending over 1600 fictitious job applications to real job openings posted on one of the largest job search portals in the country. The job applicants...
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Game of Prejudice – Experiments at the Extensive and Intensive Margin
Dasgupta, Utteeyo; Mani, Subha; Vecci, Joe; Želinský, … - 2020
preferences for discrimination towards the largest minority group in Europe (the Roma) at the intensive margins as well as at the … extensive margins. Our unique experiment design allows us to separate taste-based discrimination from statistical discrimination … and examine the impacts of raising the costs of discrimination in such situations. We find discrimination to be …
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Do Swedish schools discriminate against children with disabilities?
Ahmed, Ali; Hammarstedt, Mats; Karlsson, Karl - 2020
children with these disabilities and that discrimination is most prevalent in private schools. Private schools discriminated …
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The labour market for native and international PhD students: similarities, differences, and the role of (university) employers
Tani, Massimiliano - 2020
benefiting from positive employer discrimination, especially if graduating in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics …
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Non-Standard Employment and Wage Differences across Gender: a quantile regression approach
Duman, Anil - 2020
The paper aims to identify the effect of non-standard employment on wages in the Turkish labour market across gender and decompose the gap to understand the role of endowments and returns in generating the earning differences. Our findings show that non-standard employment reduces wages for...
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The Labour Force Status of Transgender People and The Impact of Removing Surgical Requirements to Change Gender on ID Documents
Mann, Samuel - 2020
This paper uses data from the BRFSS over the period 2014-2019 to analyse the impact of removing surgical requirements to change legal gender. In many states transgender people are forced to undergo surgical procedures if they wish to change their gender on ID documents, which can be invasive,...
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How many correspondence tests are enough to detect discrimination among single agents? A longitudinal study on the Belgian real estate market
Verhaeghe, Pieter-Paul; Van der Bracht, Koen - 2020
Correspondence tests have been used by scholars and civil rights organizations to measure ethnic discrimination. In … contrast to research testing covering a whole market through many discrimination tests, litigation testing typically targets a … methodological challenges to disentangle systematic discrimination from random treatment. This study examines from a purely …
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