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The New Promised Land : Black-White Convergence in the American South, 1960-2000

Vigdor, Jacob L. - 2006

selective migration, labor market trends including reduced discrimination and the decline of manufacturing employment, and …

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Mobility as Progressivity : Ranking Income Processes According to Equality of Opportunity

Benabou, Roland - 2001

Interest in economic mobility stems largely from its perceived role as an equalizer of opportunities, though not necessarily of outcomes. In this paper we show that this view leads very naturally to a methodology for the measurement of social mobility which has strong parallels with the theory...

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Monitoring Harassment in Organizations

Boudreau, Laura; Chassang, Sylvain; Gonzalez-Torres, Ada; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We evaluate secure survey methods designed for the ongoing monitoring of harassment in organizations. We use the resulting data to answer policy relevant questions about the nature of harassment: How prevalent is it? What share of managers is responsible for the misbehavior? How isolated are its...

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How Rules and Compliance Impact Organizational Outcomes : Evidence from Delegation in Environmental Regulation

Fenske, James; Haseeb, Muhammad; Kala, Namrata - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Formal rules within organizations are pervasive, but may be interpreted and implemented differently by actors within the organization, impacting organizational outcomes. We consider a delegation reform that changed formal rules within the environmental regulator in an Indian state, by giving...

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Inequalities in Income and Inequalities in Health

Deaton, Angus - 1999

What is inequality in health? Are economists' standard tools for measuring income inequality relevant or useful for measuring it? Does income protect health and does income inequality endanger it? I discuss two different concepts of health inequality and relate each of them to the literature on...

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Corruption, Inequality and Fairness

Alesina, Alberto - 2005

Bigger governments raise the possibilities for corruption; more corruption may in turn raise the support for redistributive policies that intend to correct the inequality and injustice generated by corruption. We formalize these insights in a simple dynamic model. A positive feedback from past...

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Inequality and Measured Growth

Oberfield, Ezra - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Compared to a half-century ago, inequality in the United states has risen and measured productivity growth has fallen. Concerns about rising inequality have been exacerbated by the observation that prices of goods consumed by the poor have risen faster than prices of goods consumed by the rich....

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Infrequent Identity Signals and Detection Risks in Audit Correspondence Studies

Balfe, Catherine; Button, Patrick; Penn, Mary; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

measure discrimination by comparing how responsive individuals ("audited units") are to correspondences from different types …. We argue that when researchers use audit correspondence studies to measure discrimination against individuals that … attenuated (downwardly biased) estimates of discrimination …

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Systemic Discrimination : Theory and Measurement

Bohren, J. Aislinn; Hull, Peter; Imas, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Economics tends to define and measure discrimination as disparities stemming from the direct (causal) effects of … systemic (i.e. indirect) channels. For example, racial disparities in criminal records due to discrimination in policing can … for modeling and measuring both direct and systemic forms of discrimination. We define systemic discrimination as emerging …

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The Effectiveness of Equal Employment Law and Affirmative Action Regulation

Leonard, Jonathan S. - 1985

This paper reviews some recent empirical analyses of the impact of affirmative action and anti-discrimination law on … seems more compatible with an earnings redistribution rather than an anti-discrimination program. 4)While many of the …

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