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Affirmative action around the world : insights from a new dataset

Gisselquist, Rachel M.; Schotte, Simone; Kim, Min J. - 2023

Affirmative action, or positive discrimination favouring the members of marginalized populations, is a key policy approach for addressing group-based inequalities along ethnic, religious, and racial lines (e.g. horizontal inequalities). It is adopted in dozens of countries around the world in...

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Affirmative action around the world : insights from a new dataset (update)

Gisselquist, Rachel M.; Kim, Min J.; Schotte, Simone; … - 2024

Affirmative action, or positive discrimination favouring the members of marginalized populations, is a key policy approach to addressing group-based inequalities. It is adopted in dozens of countries around the world in the areas of, for instance, university enrolment, public employment, and...

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Inclusion amid ethnic inequality : insights from Brazil's social protection system

Sugiyama, Natasha Borges - 2022

poverty and wellbeing. This framing is reflective of Brazil's national narrative on race relations and the idea that class and …-poverty conditional cash transfer programme, Bolsa Família (2003-21), is emblematic of the country's universal and 'race-blind' approach … to social policy. But given the strong correlation in Brazil between ethnicity and income, social protection policies …

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Occupational segregation by race in South Africa after apartheid

Gradín, Carlos - 2017

sustained or significant desegregation. Occupations remain highly segmented by race, with blacks disproportionally holding low …

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Racial bias and the validity of the Implicit Association Test

Lee, Daniel J. - 2016

Implicit associations and biases are carried without awareness of conscious direction. In this paper, I develop a model to study giving behaviours under conditions of implicit bias. I test this model by implementing a novel laboratory experiment - a Dictator Game with sorting to study both these...

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Exploring economic support networks amidst racial inequality in Namibia

Oppel, Annalena - 2021

Community or interpersonal support as a critical source of livelihood sustenance in the Global South can exhibit unequal dynamics. An understanding of these practices is primarily tied to the conceptual space of poverty or small communities. Less is known about how social support systems might...

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Race, resources, and representation : evidence from Brazilian politician

Bueno, Natália S.; Dunning, Thad - 2016

the role of investments by economic elites in a setting in which race and class substantially overlap. …

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Inequality and the generational economy : race-disaggregated National Transfer Accounts for South Africa, 2015

Oosthuizen, Morné - 2019

. Given stark inequalities by race in South Africa, this paper constructs a full set of race-disaggregated National Transfer … at older ages between race groups suggest that South Africa's second demographic dividend may be overstated by reliance …

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Transitional justice and aid

Hellsten, Sirkku - 2012

This paper examines the current security-governance-development nexus, something that is often also discussed under the concept of "transitional justice" (TJ). The paper analyses how the ambiguous, evolving and expanding nature of the concept of TJ affects the planning, coordination, evaluation...

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Climate justice for persons with disability : few harmed much, fewer still harmed too much

Tampubolon, Gindo - 2023

Building on Rawls' theory of justice and Sen's theory of capabilities, I present an outline of social justice under climate shocks, illustrating it with the experiences of persons with disability. Social justice holds when inequality is responded to by rules that afford more primary goods, such...

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