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The economic literature has spent decades of analytical effort in order to provide theoretical and empirical evidence on behavior differences between firms managed by capital (conventional capitalist firms) and firms managed by labor (including cooperatives and professional associations), mainly...
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Accounting for within-country spatial differences is a much neglected issue in many cross-country comparisons. This paper highlights this importance in this empirical analysis of the impact of a country’s degree of social and economic globalization on female employment in 33 OECD countries,...
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career paths of blacks and whites, I develop a dynamic model of statistical discrimination in which firms diversify their …
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In Mexico, as in most Latin American countries with indigenous populations, it is commonly believed that European phenotypes are preferred to mestizo or indigenous phenotypes. However, it is hard to test for such racial biases in the labor market using official statistics since race can only be...
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discrimination, hiring discrimination, and job placement discrimination (including discrimination in promotions). …
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of discrimination. …
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can be explained by differences in endowments and what part is due to discrimination. The New Economy has been identified … endowment plays a major role in determining absorption of workers, discrimination against women is also substantial leading to … entry barrier. Most of the gender differences in wages are due to discrimination and only a small part is attributable to …
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Globalization, liberalization, technological development, infrastructure development and WTO etc. are ‘contexts’, which have the potential to positively influence the quantity and quality of women’s participation in agriculture in India’s North Eastern Region. Women in agriculture in...
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unobserved productivity-linked attributes versus market discrimination as determinants of racial inequality in labor market …
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merits of culture versus market discrimination as determinants of racial inequality in labor market outcomes. Our results are …
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