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Disadvantage and discrimination in self-employment : caste gaps in earnings in Indian small businesses

Deshpande, Ashwini; Sharma, Smriti - 2015

face greater discrimination. …

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For whom does the phone (not) ring? : discrimination in the rental housing market in Delhi, India

Datta, Saugato; Pathania, Vikram - 2016

evidence of discrimination against Muslim applicants, both in terms of probability of being contacted and the number of …

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Affirmative action policies and the evolution of post-apartheid South Africa's racial wage gap

Burger, Rulof; Jafta, Rachel; Fintel, Dieter von - 2016

Racial wage inequality and discrimination have pervaded South African society for centuries. Apartheid legislation … decomposition methodology that tracks changes in the discrimination component of the wage gap over time. It accounts for biases … shows that 2003 was a turning point, when black-white discrimination started to decline continuously thereafter. The …

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Searching for religious discrimination among Anganwadi workers in India : an experimental investigation

Dasgupta, Utteeyo; Mani, Subha; Prakarsh Singh - 2016

allocation game where we incorporate treatments to disentangle statistical and taste-based discrimination. Our findings find no … evidence of taste-based discrimination or statistical discrimination among the child caregivers. We also weigh-in on the … usefulness of non-incentivized experiments in discrimination experiments. …

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Double jeopardy? : caste, affirmative action, and stigma

Deshpande, Ashwini - 2016

This paper presents the results of an attitude survey administered to university students in India that attempts to delineate the social-psychological mechanisms of 'externalization' and 'internalization' to understand the possible consequences of stigma associated with caste-based affirmative...

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Fiscal policy, labour market, and inequality : diagnosing South Africa's anomalies in the shadow of racial discrimination

D'Agostino, Giorgio; Giuli, Francesco; Lorusso, Marco; … - 2020

Inequality in South Africa is the enduring legacy of racial discrimination. We use a dynamic perspective to show the … linkages between persistent effects of discrimination in the labour market and the efficacy of redistributive fiscal policy in …

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Discrimination, social capital, and financial constraints : the case of Viet Nam

Pham, Tho; Talavera, Oleksandr - 2017

provide evidence for discrimination against female-owned enterprises in the formal lending market. Specifically, female …. No discrimination in formal credit markets may arise from the preference for informal loans over formal loans - that is …

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Behind the numbers : exploring caste inequities in entrepreneurial success

Raj, Rajesh S. N.; Sen, Kunal - 2024

. Pervasive market and non-market discrimination against marginalized groups suggests that the significant caste disparities in …

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Affirmative action and long-run changes in group inequality in India

Kumar, Hemanshu; Somanathan, Rohini - 2016

Research on caste-based inequalities in India has generally focused on differences between large categories such as the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes, and the remainder of the population. We contribute to the literature on horizontal inequalities in India by looking within these...

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The legal basis for affirmative action in India

Munusamy, Kiruba - 2022

The affirmative action policy in India came into practice because of the generations of struggle undergone by the untouchable castes and other backward classes, who were historically excluded from education and administration. As society changed, it was inevitable that the vulnerable groups who...

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