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distinct phenotypes: Caucasian, mestizo and indigenous. We also randomly vary marital status across gender and phenotype. Hence …
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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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by economic theory, but “the hypothesis of employer discrimination does not at all explain segregation by occupation … to discriminate. Economic theory is, therefore, endogenously color-blind, race-blind, gender-blind, ethnicity-blind, and …Ken Arrow (1998) asks, “What has economics to say about racial discrimination?” He replies – entirely correctly – that …
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discrimination, the conceptual reach of economic theory needs extension. I propose a generalization by assigning non … or their utility function representation, commonplace in economic theory, implies the impossibility of social … discrimination. …
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We study gender discrimination in hiring markets by sending 19,130 fictitious matched resumes in response to … discrimination. On the other hand, this evidence is consistent with statistics that describe discrimination based on gender … respect to regional income disparity, we find that the differences in gender discrimination between first- and second …
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mitigating discrimination in employment. However, accounting for sub-national regional gender heterogeneity reveals that the …
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History is replete with overt discrimination on the basis of race, gender, age, citizenship, ethnicity, marital status … either racial (gender or ethnic) discrimination or generational discrimination (i.e., young versus old). When the conflicts … discrimination are not equally tolerable. For example, discrimination based on immutable or prohibitively unalterable characteristics …
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below the regional average income, and depend on state welfare programs. We found gender differences in employment, earnings …
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monetary poverty and inequality. Intra-household gender discrimination has been widely shown to shape expenditure decisions … dominated by gender discrimination among household members. Estimates for Chile show a substantial worsening of poverty and … inequality under such allocation rules. This suggests that intra-household discrimination deserves some of the attention …
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This paper examines some of the consequences for economic theory of the replacement of binary personal preferences by … both much damage to existing theory and greater opportunity for providing formal explanations of such phenomena as … discrimination, personal freedoms and power, among others, which are impossible to explain at a formal level on the basis of an …
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