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Racial and ethnic inequality in Latin America
Telles, Edward E.; Bailey, Stanley R.; Davoudpour, Shahin; … - 2023
This chapter examines socioeconomic inequality in Latin America through the lens of race and ethnicity. We primarily use national census data from the International Public Use Micro Data Sample (IPUMS). Since censuses use inconsistent measures of race and ethnicity, we also draw on two...
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Discrimination against gay and transgender people in Latin America : a correspondence study in the rental housing market
Abbate, Nicolás; Berniell, Inés; Coleff, Joaquín; … - 2023
We assess the extent of discrimination against gay and transgender individuals in the rental housing markets of four Latin American countries. We conducted a large-scale field experiment building on the correspondence study methodology to examine interactions between property managers and...
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Race-based educational, occupational and industry segregation and wages gaps in Trinidad and Tobago
Schimanski, Caroline; Chagalj, Cristian; Ruprah, Inder S. - 2018
sector of work and facing a large institutionalized pay difference. This raises the question whether segregation and …-based educational, occupational and industry segregation and wage gaps in Trinidad and Tobago’s private and public sector and its … segregation are with 7% in terms of the Karmel-Maclachlan index low and lower than respective gender-based segregation over the …
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The impact of racial segregation on college attainment in spatial equilibrium
Gregory, Victoria; Kozlowski, Julian; Rubinton, Hannah - 2022
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Trust and racial income inequality : evidence from the U.S.
Tesei, Andrea - 2015
Existing studies of trust formation in U.S. metropolitan areas have found that trust is lower when there is more income inequality and greater racial fragmentation. I add to this literature by examining the role of income inequality between racial groups (racial income inequality). I find that...
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Diversity and discrimination in the classroom
Anderberg, Dan; Dahl, Gordon B.; Felfe, Christina; … - 2024
What makes diversity unifying in some settings but divisive in others? We examine how the mixing of ethnic groups in German schools affects intergroup cooperation and trust. We leverage the quasi-random assignment of students to classrooms within schools to obtain variation in the type of...
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Like oil and water or chocolate and peanut butter? : ethnic diversity and social participation of young people in England
Fumagalli, Elena; Fumagalli, Laura - 2009
Survey of Young People in England' (LSYPE) and we find that ethnic segregation increases the probability of hanging around … exogenous. -- Social Participation ; Fractionalization ; Segregation …
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Establishing cooperation between groups : ingroup versus outgroup punishment
Stoff, Christian (contributor) - 2006 - Revised: February 2006
We analyse interethnic cooperation in an infinitely repeated prisoner’s dilemma when members of one group are unable to target punishment towards individual defectors from the other group. We first show that indiscriminate outgroup punishment may sustain cooperation in this setting. Our main...
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Internal migration across Italian regions : macroeconomic determinants and accommodating potential for a dualistic economy
Piras, Romano - 2010
We provide econometric evidence that relative per capita GDP and relative unemployment rates are the main determinants of migration flows across Italian regions from 1970 to 2002. The empirical analysis is based on an accurate study of the dynamic properties of the series. In fact, we deal with...
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The NRU and the evolution of regional disparities in Spanish unemployment
Bande, Roberto; Karanassou, Marika - 2011
On both theoretical and empirical grounds, this paper provides evidence that refutes the natural rate of unemployment (NRU) hypothesis as an explanation of the evolution of regional disparities in the unemployment rate. We first present our analytical framework, which follows the chain reaction...
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