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In this paper we propose minority voting as a scheme that can partially protect individuals from the risk of repeated …: voting winners, voting losers, and absentees. Under minority voting only voting losers keep the voting right in the second … period. We show that as soon as absolute risk aversion exceeds a threshold value minority voting is superior to repeated …
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In this paper we propose minority voting as a scheme that can partially protect individuals from the risk of repeated …: voting winners, voting losers, and absentees. Under minority voting only voting losers keep the voting right in the second … period. We show that as soon as absolute risk aversion exceeds a threshold value minority voting is superior to repeated …
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While the allocative efficiency of mobility is typically considered to be positive but small in the long run, the induced changes in equality may be considerable in size. In practice, however, migrants typically improve their income position in comparison to those at home, stimulate the economic...
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leave the sciences and take longer to graduate at each campus. We show the vast majority of minority students would be more … results do not apply for non-minority students. …
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findings of the study suggest, among others, that minority group status is important in characterising job separations …
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Are ethnic specialization and thus a downward sloping labor demand curve fundamental features of labor market competition between ethnic groups? In a general equilibrium model, this paper argues that spillover effects in skill acquisition and social distances between ethnic groups engender...
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state was concentrated in urban neighborhoods and that minority homeownerships created with subprime mortgages have proved … owned by minority residents. Furthermore, we argue that the particularly dire foreclosure situation in urban neighborhoods …
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Administrative data from a large and diverse community college are used to examine if underrepresented minority … students benefit from taking courses with underrepresented minority instructors. To identify racial interactions we estimate … that the performance gap in terms of class dropout rates and grade performance between white and underrepresented minority …
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