Europe is a continent of cities with a remarkable history of cultural inspiration, wealth creation, social and politicaldynamism. But in the late-20th century, many former industrial cities entered a period of steep decline, losingmost of their manufacturing jobs and many of their economic...

We document ethnic segregation in secondary schools in England in 2001 inorder to contribute to the debate on the degree of ethnic group social integration.We use indices of dissimilarity and isolation to compare the patterns ofsegregation across nine ethnic groups. We find that levels of ethnic...

The paper analyzes school choice in primary schools in Germany. The data used isfrom Wuppertal, a major city in North-Rhine Westphalia (NRW), where primaryschool districts existed before 2008. It is shown that it is not uncommon to attend aprimary school that is not the assigned public school....

Using nine years of personnel records from a regional grocery store chain in the UnitedStates, this study examines the effect of manager ethnicity on the ethnic composition ofemployment at the firm’s 73 stores. We estimate separate models with store fixed effects forseveral departments and job...

Using only ordinal axioms, we characterize several multigroup school segregationindices: the Atkinson Indices for the class of school districts with a given fixed numberof ethnic groups and the Mutual Information Index for the class of all districts.Properties of other school segregation indices...

This paper gives an axiomatic characterization of the Atkinson indices of segregationfor the multigroup case using a small number of purely ordinal axioms. We showthat the symmetric Atkinson index represents the unique ordering that treats ethnicgroups symmetrically, that is invariant to...

We propose a set of axioms for the measurement of school-based segregation withany number of ethnic groups. These axioms are motivated by two criteria. The first isevenness: how much do ethnic groups’ distributions across schools differ? The secondis representativeness: how different are...

In Romania, the communist regime promoted an official policy of gender equality for morethan 40 years, providing equal access to education and employment, and restricting paydifferentiation based on gender. After its fall in December 1989, the promotion of equalopportunities and treatment for...

Ludwig von Mises hat Zeit seines Lebens die intellektuelle Auseinandersetzung mitantiliberalen und antikapitalistischen Ressentiments gesucht. Der vorliegende Beitraggreift die bereits durch Mises gestellte Frage nach möglichen Gründen für dieantikapitalistischen Ressentiments der...