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According to Becker's (1957) theory of taste-based employer discrimination, pure economic rents are necessary for discrimination to be observed in the labor market. Increased competition and reduced rents in the market for final goods should therefore lead to reduced labor market discrimination....
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that politicians strategically change their self-professed race in response to electoral incentives. Using original data … from Brazilian elections, I show that more than a quarter of the political candidates that competed in Brazil's 2014 and … 2016 elections changed their publicly declared race from one election to the next. My analysis indicates the racial …
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hiring contributes to racial inequality in firm-level labor demand over the firm's life cycle using data from Brazil. We … to hire candidates and less likely to dismiss employees of the same race as the founder, but these differences diminish …
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literature. We studied the effects of racial segregation on the black-white score gap for 5th-grade students in Brazil. Even …
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