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This paper analyses the role of banks in financing SMEs in Britain and Germany. It applies a sociological institutionalist approach to understand how banks construct and manage risk, relating to SME business. The empirical analysis is based on the results of a comparative survey of a sample of...
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This paper explores the evolution of Brazilian wage gaps by gender and skin color over a decade (1996-2006), using the matching comparison methodology developed by Ñopo (2008). In Brazil, racial wage gaps are more pronounced than those found along the gender divide, although both noticeably...
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on the basis of defendant race. These results are consistent with racial prejudice on the part of white jurors, black …. Simulations of the model suggest that jurors of each race are heterogeneous in the standards of evidence that they require to … convict and that both black and white defendants would prefer to face jurors of the same race. …
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discrimination in credit markets have, ironically, had the effect of making race analytically invisible. Because of these explanatory …, whereas the former ignore race. This paper traces this disjuncture to two sources. What is missing in the social science view … previously been excluded from equal access to mortgage credit instead super included in subprime lending? Second, why didn't the …
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composition of genetic traits across populations. The recent attempt by Nicholas Wade's A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and …
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In recent years, as the homeownership rate in the United States reached its highest level in history, homeownership itself remained unevenly distributed, particularly along racial and ethnic lines. By using data from the 2000 Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) and 2006 American...
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This paper proposes an extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition from two to a continuum of comparison groups. The proposed decomposition is then estimated for the case of racial wage differences in urban Peru, exploiting a novel data set that allows the capturing of mestizaje (racial mixtures).
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This paper explores the relationship between Covid-19 infection rates, race, and type of work. We focus on three U … race. Additional evidence for Arizona, Florida, and Texas also shows amplified infection rates for these groups around …
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mortgages or moving. Black and Hispanic white borrowers face challenges refinancing because, on average, they have lower credit …
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The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated trends in automation as many employers seek to save on labor costs amid widespread illness, increased worker leverage, and market pressures to onshore supply chains. While existing research has explored how automation may displace nonspecialized jobs, there...
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