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Race and income distribution: Evidence from the US, Brazil and South Africa

Gradín, Carlos - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2010

The aim of this paper is to provide some empirical evidence about black-white differentials in the distribution of income and wellbeing in three different countries: Brazil, US and South Africa. In all cases, people of African descent are in a variety of ways socially disadvantaged compared with...

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Trends in global inequality using a new integrated dataset

Gradín, Carlos - 2021

This paper presents preliminary evidence of the annual global income distribution since 1950 using a new integrated dataset that aggregates standardized country income distributions at the percentile level estimated from various sources in the World Income Inequality Database. I analyse the...

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An Empirical Study of Tax Evasion Ethics in China

McGee, Robert W.; Yuhua, An - 2007

In 1944, Martin Crowe, a Catholic priest, wrote a doctoral dissertation titled The Moral Obligation of Paying Just Taxes. His dissertation summarized and analyzed 500 years of theological and philosophical debate on this topic, which identified three basic philosophical positions on the issue....

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Segregation of women into low-paying occupations in the United States

Gradín, Carlos - In: Applied economics 52 (2020) 17, pp. 1905-1920

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Segregation of women into low-paying occupations in the United States

Gradín, Carlos - 2017

We extend the conventional framework for measuring segregation to consider stratification of occupations by gender, i … US has been accompanied by a deeper, longer reduction in gender stratification. We further investigate the role of … workers' characteristics, showing that gender differences cannot explain the levels of segregation/stratification in any year …

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Conditional occupational segregation of minorities in the U.S.

Gradín, Carlos - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2010

In this paper, we use a propensity score-based methodology to analyze the role of demographic and human capital characteristics of minorities in the U.S. in explaining their high occupational segregation with respect to whites. Thus, we measure conditional segregation based on an estimated...

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Occupational segregation by race and ethnicity in the US: Differences across states

Gradín, Carlos; Río, Coral del; Alonso-Villar, Olga - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011

Using the 2005–2007 American Community Survey, we analyze the occupational segregation of workers by race and ethnicity across states. Although the unconditional analysis shows great geographical variation in segregation, with the largest levels in the Southwest, the analysis of segregation...

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Occupational Segregation by Race and Ethnicity in the US: Differences across States

Gradín, Carlos; del Río, Coral; Alonso-Villar, Olga - Departamento de Economía Aplicada, Facultade de … - 2011

Using the 2005–2007 American Community Survey, this paper analyzes the extent of geographical disparities in occupational segregation by race and ethnicity across the United States. Although the unconditional analysis shows great geographical variation in segregation, with the largest levels...

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Occupational segregation by race and ethnicity in the US : differences across states

Gradín, Carlos; Río Otero, Coral del; Alonso Villar, Olga - 2011

Using the 2005-2007 American Community Survey, we analyze the occupational segregation of workers by race and ethnicity across states. Although the unconditional analysis shows great geographical variation in segregation, with the largest levels in the Southwest, the analysis of segregation...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011555092

Antidumping Laws Should Be Consigned to the History Books

McGee, Robert W. - 2016

Antidumping laws have existed in some form since the early twentieth century. Ostensibly aimed at protecting domestic producers from unfair trade practices, they have frequently been used as weapons of protectionism even when dumping has not occurred. When this happens, some special interest...

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