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By some definitions, social housing, social housing tenants are necessarily socially excluded. In other terms, in 2000, social housing tenants were at greater risk of being socially excluded than owner occupiers and private renters on measures of income, employment, education, health, and...
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Gaps in welfare attainment between boys and girls in China have attracted international attention. In this paper demand analysis is used to try and uncover the factors which may be driving the emergence of the gender gaps. Drawing on household expenditure data from a poor (Sichuan) and rich...
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Disadvantaged groups tend also to constitute population minorities. One consequence of this is that the policies implemented by electorally accountable governments often fail to reflect minority interests. A policy solution is to enhance the political power of minority groups as a vehicle for...
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We document ethnic segregation in secondary schools in England in 2001 in order to contribute to the debate on the degree of ethnic group social integration. We use indices of dissimilarity and isolation to compare the patterns of segregation across nine ethnic groups. We find that levels of...
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This paper tests if gender-discrimination in grading affects pupils' achievements and course choices. I use a unique … from a substantive positive discrimination in math but not in French. This bias is not explained by girls' better behavior … to show that classes in which teachers present a high degree of discrimination in favor of girls are also classes in …
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Dispersion in pay is lower among union members than among non-unionists. This reflects two factors. First, union members and jobs are more homogeneous than their non-union counterparts. Second, union wage policies within and across firms lower pay dispersion. Unions'' minimum wage targets also...
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Very little is known about how the differential treatment of sexual minorities could influence subjective reports of overall well-being. This paper seeks to fill this gap. Data from two large surveys that provide nationally representative samples for two different countries – Australia (the...
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This paper assesses whether racial prejudice and labour market discrimination is counter-cyclical. This may occur if … prejudice and discrimination are partly driven by competition over scarce resources, which intensifies during periods of …
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or currencies) and discrimination (failure to enable, recognize, or act consistently upon, the presentation of currencies … construed, or misconstrued. A typology of discrimination is described, along with its potential exclusory outcomes. Yet, changes …
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findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments …, the discrimination detected in field experiments is less pervasive than that implied by the regression approach …
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