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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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Ken Arrow (1998) asks, “What has economics to say about racial discrimination?” He replies – entirely correctly – that … 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 …
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discrimination, the conceptual reach of economic theory needs extension. I propose a generalization by assigning non … discrimination. …
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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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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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In this paper we investigate the effect of an academic degree on gender wage gap in Greece and the United Kingdom …, we decompose the gender wage gap between graduates and individuals with secondary education, and finally we analyse the …-Blinder decomposition technique is used. We find that the unexplained part, which is often related to discrimination is lower for graduates …
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Is gender disparity greater in North India? This paper seeks to answer this question by examining gender differences in … probability of completing school education across regions in India. A Gender Disparity Index is calculated using National Sample … hypothesis that gender disparity is greater in the North, comparative to the rest of India. This is followed by an econometric …
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hypotheses through a field experiment in the labor market. The experiment consisted on sending fictitious curriculums (CVs … distinct phenotypes: Caucasian, mestizo and indigenous. We also randomly vary marital status across gender and phenotype. Hence …
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