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In bargaining between two sellers and one buyer on prices and quantities, strategic inefficiencies arise. By reallocating between the last agreement and the first, the buyer can increase it's share of the surplus. With symmetric sellers producing substitutes, the quantities in the first...
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objective of this study is to analyze the effect of political culture and of valuation asymmetry on discrimination between the … discrimination is an endogenous variable that characterizes the mechanism allocating the prize. We consider situations under which … effect of changes in the political culture and in valuation asymmetry on the designer's preferred discrimination between the …
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This paper surveys evidence on discrimination in Latin America and shows that there is a widespread perception of … discrimination, especially against the poor, the uneducated and those who lack connections. The channels through which discrimination … discriminatory practices in the region. This puzzle, where individuals perceive discrimination is in the air, but few act …
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We analyze the effect of being born in a recession on the mortality rate later in life in conjunction with social class. We use individual data records from Dutch registers of birth, marriage, and death certificates, covering the period 1815-2000, and we merge these with historical data on...
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market inequality to help understand the continuing earnings and employment disparities experienced by people with … apply them to examples related to intersectionality, unionisation, contingent work, and employment in times of crisis. Paid … employment is central to people's social and economic wellbeing within liberal market-based economies, making it important to …
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a few papers that examine ethnic networking as a business or employment strategy. In many ways Africa's failure to … examine the relationship between employment, wages and ethnicity in Africa via a case study of Kenya. I challenge the … a dominant group (in terms of population and also politically) has an impact on the possibility of employment and the …
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Anonymous application procedures (AAP) are increasingly promoted as a way to combat employment discrimination. The idea …
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shipyard workers and miners. They have higher employment, not higher unemployment, and higher earnings than the comparison …
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objective is to identify policy tools that help generate sustained increases in employment in the long run. Therefore, we focus …
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