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The Redistributive Effects of Political Reservation for Minorities: Evidence from India
Chin, Aimee; Prakash, Nishith - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
We examine the impact of political reservation for disadvantaged minority groups on poverty. To address the concern that political reservation is endogenous, we take advantage of the state-time variation in reservation in state legislative assemblies in India generated by national policies that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008685007
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Income Inequality and Social Preferences for Redistribution and Compensation Differentials
Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
In cross-sectional studies, countries with greater income inequality typically exhibit less support for government-led redistribution and greater acceptance of wage inequality (e.g., United States versus Western Europe). If individual nations evolve along this pattern, a vicious cycle could form...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009395461
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Conflict, Evolution, Hegemony, and the Power of the State
Levine, David; Modica, Salvatore - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
In a model of evolution driven by conflict between societies more powerful states have an advantage. When the influence of outsiders is small we show that this results in a tendency to hegemony. In a simple example in which institutions differ in their "exclusiveness" we find that these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950707
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Did Age Discrimination Protections Help Older Workers Weather the Great Recession?
Neumark, David; Button, Patrick - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
We examine whether stronger age discrimination laws at the state level moderated the impact of the Great Recession on … evidence that stronger age discrimination protections helped older workers weather the Great Recession, relative to younger … workers. The evidence sometimes points in the opposite direction, with stronger state age discrimination protections …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950721
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Tall or Taller, Pretty or Prettier: Is Discrimination Absolute or Relative?
Hamermesh, Daniel - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
Using several microeconomic data sets from the United States and the Netherlands, and the examples of height and beauty, this study examines whether: 1) Absolute or relative differences in a characteristic are what affect labor-market and other outcomes; and 2) The effects of a characteristic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950947
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The Role and Functioning of Public-Interest Legal Organizations in the Enforcement of the Employment Laws
Jolls, Christine - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004
Many laws create important rights for today's employees, but the availability of legal representation for employees seeking to enforce those rights is uncertain. The goal of the present paper, part of the Emerging Labor Market Institutions for the 21st Century Project at the National Bureau of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005019425
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Do Stronger Age Discrimination Laws Make Social Security Reforms More Effective?
Neumark, David; Song, Joanne - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
may be frustrated by age discrimination. We test for policy complementarities between these reforms and demand …-side efforts to deter age discrimination, specifically studying whether stronger state-level age discrimination protections … age discrimination protections were associated with delayed benefit claiming and increases in employment, with benefit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009321296
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The Timing of Labor Demand
Hamermesh, Daniel; Cardoso, Ana Rute; Varejão, José - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
We examine the timing of firms' operations in a formal model of labor demand. Merging a variety of data sets from Portugal from 1995-2004, we describe temporal patterns of firms' demand for labor and estimate production-functions and relative labor-demand equations. The results demonstrate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005720200
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The L.A. Riot and the Economics of Urban Unrest
Glaeser, Edward Ludwig; DiPasquale, Denise - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1996
The Los Angeles riot of 1992 resulted in 52 deaths, 2,500 injuries and at least $446 million in property damage; this staggering toll rekindled interest in understanding the underlying causes of the widespread social phenomenon of rioting. We examine the causes of rioting using international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005830319
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The Age Discrimination in Employment Act and the Challenge of Population Aging
Neumark, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
This paper reviews evidence on age discrimination in U.S. labor markets and on the effects of the Age Discrimination in … Employment Act (ADEA) in combating this discrimination. It focuses on the challenge of population aging facing the U.S. economy … in coming decades. Combating age discrimination is likely to help in meeting this challenge by encouraging employment of …
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