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The immense literature on discrimination treats outcomes as relative: One group suffers compared to another. But does a …? This difference matters, as the relative importance of the types of discrimination and their inter-relation affect market … not contain the students' names, on average we find favoritism but no discrimination by nationality, and neither …
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Using several microeconomic data sets from the United States and the Netherlands, and the examples of height and beauty, this study examines whether: 1) Absolute or relative differences in a characteristic are what affect labor-market and other outcomes; and 2) The effects of a characteristic...
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immigrants and natives become noticeable when activities are distinguished by incidence and intensity. We develop a theory of the … process of assimilation--what immigrants do with their time--based on the notion that assimilating activities entail fixed … costs. The theory predicts that immigrants will be less likely than natives to undertake such activities, but conditional on …
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and improves his team's chance of winning. The results suggest that standard measures of salary discrimination that adjust …
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We develop a theory of sorting across occupations based on looks and derive its implications for testing for the source of earnings differentials related to looks. These differentials are examined using the 1977 Quality of Employment, the 1971 Quality of American Life, and the 1981 Canadian...
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Economic theories of discrimination are usually based on tastes. The huge body of empirical studies, however, considers … examines tastes for discrimination directly, or considers people's willingness to trade off other characteristics to indulge …
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