state-time variation in reservation in state legislative assemblies in India that arises from national policies that cause …

matching, bargaining and employers' taste discrimination. In equilibrium all types of employers wage discriminate women … differentials are due to labor market discrimination or to unobserved productivity differences. The objective of this paper is to …

Caste-based quotas in hiring have existed in the public sector in India for decades. Recently there has been debate …-based discrimination in the Indian private sector. On average low-caste applicants need to send 20 percent more resumes than high … and low-caste applicants are not entirely due to statistical discrimination. High-caste applicants are also differentially …

The caste system - a system of elaborately stratified social hierarchy - distinguishes India from most other societies … India, with Dalits or Scheduled Castes (SC) clustered in occupations that were the least well paid and most degrading in … terms of manual labour. Along with the Scheduled Tribes (STs), the SCs have the highest incidence of poverty in India, with …

measures of salary discrimination that adjust for measured productivity may be flawed. We derive the magnitude of the bias …

fallacy - one seen in the popular press and the research literature - that to measure discrimination it is sufficient to study …

commercial sex market stems both from productivity and discrimination. In addition, including controls for personal …

objective of this study is to analyze the effect of political culture and of valuation asymmetry on discrimination between the … discrimination is an endogenous variable that characterizes the mechanism allocating the prize. We consider situations under which … effect of changes in the political culture and in valuation asymmetry on the designer's preferred discrimination between the …

We investigate the emergence of discrimination in an experiment where individuals affiliated to different groups … the bids (i.e. there is no statistical discrimination), and she has no monetary incentive to favour the members of her own … group (the bidders are symmetric). We observe nonetheless some discrimination by auctioneers, who tend to assign the prize …