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The role of employer discrimination in widening labor market differences between men and women has been hypothesized … and investigated in different settings. Using a field experiment, this paper examines the presence and magnitude of gender …-based discrimination by employers at the point of screening in Tunisia. The study sent out 1,571 fictitious and substantially identical …
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Discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people is widespread and LGBTI … development challenge; not only because discrimination is inherently unjust, but also because "there are substantial costs …
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servants' performance-enhancing characteristics, democratization increases discrimination. The author test this argument using … district government level. The gender and religious minority penalties are strongest for promotions at the lowest levels of the …
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Discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) people is widespread, and LGBTI … is a development challenge; not only because discrimination is inherently unjust, but also because "there are substantial … programs. This study documents, for the first time, discrimination against LGBTI people in access to education and housing in …
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The paper develops a new theory of group discrimination in which the discrimination in favor or against certain groups … complementarity between doing different tasks. The theory helps us understand discrimination in free markets and the .finding of some … constant. The model gives insight into the relation between group size, discrimination, and productivity …
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Labor market discrimination is very difficult to pinpoint, even more difficult to measure and almost impossible to … the manner in which discrimination plays out and how it is related to different forms of social stratification. This paper … reviews the literature and makes two main contributions: first, it builds a four-fold typology to think about discrimination …
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. The evidence to date suggests that there are significant negative consequences of legal gender discrimination on women …-intended policy interventions to address legal gender discrimination in certain domains. The paper concludes with a discussion of the …This paper reviews the empirical literature on the existence and impact of gender discriminatory laws on women …
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individuals' work activities. The problem is further complicated by the presence of widespread gender stratification of work and …
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The literature lends empirical support for the idea that improvements to transport infrastructure lead to economic development. How and why the benefits of better transport differ between genders is less clear. This paper attempts to answer this question by combining a nonexperimental impact...
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This study aims to understand women's engagement in economic activities in rural Honduras and why these activities may not be accurately reflected in official statistics. The study finds that women underreport their engagement in economic activities, including production for own consumption,...
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