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Racial Disparities in Job Finding and Offered Wages
Fryer, Roland G.; Pager, Devah; Spenkuch, Jörg L. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
consistent with a search-matching model in which employers statistically discriminate on the basis of race when hiring unemployed …
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Race and Marriage in the Labor Market: A Discrimination Correspondence Study in a Developing Country
Arceo-Gomez, Eva O.; Campos-Vázquez, Raymundo M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
market using official statistics since race can only be inferred from native language. Moreover, employers may think that …
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Further Examination of Potential Discrimination Among MLB Umpires
Tainsky, Scott; Mills, Brian; Winfree, Jason A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
as well as pitch location. Our analysis shows mixed results regarding the matching of umpire and pitcher race. We … conclude that evidence of own race bias is sensitive to specification and methodology. How results can differ based on … different data sets, specifications, time periods and race classifications are discussed. …
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Pragmatic identity and alterity in political discourse
Boicu, Ruxandra - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The article analyzes a sample of political discourse, namely the speech entitled “We Want Our Country Back”, delivered by the British nationalist, MEP, Ashley Mote. In the communication situation, the audience is made up of conservative, right-wing politicians or supporters, mainly readers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259753
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Social psychology and gender efficiency wage gap
Jellal, Mohamed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Our paper introduces the dimension of social psychology in a model of efficiency wages and gender diversity. In this context, we show that women earn lower wages than men but provide in return relatively less effort. Therefore in order to increase women's productivity, the firm increases their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108387
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Why is the Workplace Racially Segregated by Occupation?
Naqvi, Nadeem - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Ken Arrow (1998) asks, “What has economics to say about racial discrimination?” He replies – entirely correctly – that … to discriminate. Economic theory is, therefore, endogenously color-blind, race-blind, gender-blind, ethnicity-blind, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260187
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Impossibility of interpersonal social identity diversification under binary preferences
Naqvi, Nadeem - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Diverse identities, some socially shared, arise from a person’s affiliation with multiple overlapping communities, which are non-disjoint subsets of persons in society. I prove that identification of each individual with binary preferences or their utility function representation, commonplace...
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NEA presidential address: identity, markets, and persistent racial inequality
Mason, Patrick L. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
. In particular, we seek to examine whether race is best understood as a set of values and behaviors or whether race is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836196
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Availability of credit to small and minority-owned businesses: Evidence from the 1993 National Survey of Small Business Finances
Cole, Rebel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1999
This article analyzes factors influencing the decisions of prospective lenders to extend credit to small and minority-owned businesses. Using data from a government survey of small businesses, the analysis reveals that prospective lenders (primarily commercial banks)are four times more likely to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616652
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Education, race and revealed attitudes towards homosexual couples
Leguizamon, Sebastian; Leguizamon, Susane; Christafore, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
compositions of educational attainment and race. We find that a higher number of homosexuals in relatively higher educated areas is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109391