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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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with at least one black member. Using the Anwar-Fang rank order test, we find strong statistical evidence of discrimination …
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discrimination in credit markets have, ironically, had the effect of making race analytically invisible. Because of these explanatory …
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results document employment discrimination for all groups with migration background, it is most pronounced for applicants with … an African, i.e. Nigerian, background. To explain why and when discrimination occurs, a battery of firm and job specific … explain the actual level of discrimination. Discrimination in Austria therefore seems to be a general phenomenon driven by …
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attach their picture to their résumé. High levels of discrimination were found particularly against the migrant wearing a …
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We construct a dedicated web interface and use it to conduct a laboratory experiment to study willingness to lend and preference over borrowers in micro-finance lending. We distinguish between perceptions of transaction-related factors, such as neediness and trustworthiness, and identity-related...
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Economic outcomes are compared for university graduates in Israel belonging to four different ethnic groups. A unique dataset is used that includes all individuals who graduated with a first degree from universities and colleges in Israel between the years 1995 and 2008 and which tracks them for...
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and whether to migrate in their adulthood. Assuming a rent-extraction basis for discrimination, we first endogenize ethnic … discrimination in the benchmark case of an economy closed to migration, and then explore how migration prospects affect ethnic … on the minority. Moreover, the optimal discrimination rate (from the majority’s perspective) is shown to be such that …
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To test for ethnic discrimination in access to outpatient health care services, we carry out an email …
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Using an experimental setup involving 436 case workers at the Swedish Public Employment Service (SPES) as subjects and the profile photographs and recorded voices of 75 jobseekers as treatments, we report results indicating that male case workers tend to favor jobseekers perceived as having a...
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