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Who Goes on Disability when Times are Tough? The Role of Work Norms among Immigrants
Furtado, Delia; Papps, Kerry L.; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos - 2020
We examine how work norms affect Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) take-up rates in response to worsening economic conditions. By focusing on immigrants in the US, we can consider the influence of work norms in a person’s home country, which we argue are exogenous to labor market...
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Subjective Well-being, Income, and Ethnicity in Slovakia
Želinský, Tomáš - 2021
is examined in the setting of Slovak Roma, who are poor in comparison to the non-Roma population. The results suggest … that the correlation between income and satisfaction is greater for the lower-income group (the Roma) than for the higher …
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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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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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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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The Economics of Being LGBT. A Review: 2015-2020
Drydakis, Nick - 2021
UK experience higher poverty rates than heterosexual and cis people. However, in these two regions, anti-discrimination …
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Inside the NBA Bubble: How Black Players Performed Better without Fans
Caselli, Mauro; Falco, Paolo; Somekh, Babak - 2022
In the NBA, predominantly Black players play in front of predominantly non-Black fans. Using the 'NBA bubble', a natural experiment induced by COVID-19, we show that the performance of Black players improved significantly with the absence of fans vis-à-vis White players. This is consistent with...
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Sexual Orientation and Earnings. A Meta-Analysis 2012-2020
Drydakis, Nick - 2021
in the face of anti-discrimination policies represents a cause for concern and indicates the need for comprehensive …
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Discrimination and Health Outcomes in England's Black Communities Amid the Cost-of-Living Crisis: Evaluating the Role of Inflation and Bank Rates
Drydakis, Nick - 2024
discrimination and deteriorations in both general and mental health for Black individuals. Moreover, it was found that during the … cost-of-living crisis period, i.e., 2022-2023, discrimination was more adversely related to general and mental health … experienced higher levels of discrimination and reduced general and mental health compared to reference groups. The findings of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015072139
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Strangers and Foreigners: Trust and Attitudes toward Citizenship
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo; Tedeschi, Gian Luca - 2022
We analyze the relationship between natives' attitudes towards citizenship acquisition for foreigners and trust. Our hypothesis is that, in sub-Saharan Africa, the slave trade represents the deep factor behind contemporary attitudes toward citizenship, with more intense exposure to historical...
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