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Using microeconomic data sets from the United States and the Netherlands, this study considers how agents perceive characteristics that are discriminated against. It uses the examples of beauty and height to examine whether: 1) Absolute or relative differences in a characteristic affect...
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This paper provides a simple explanation for why some minority groups are economically successful, despite being subject to government-mandated discriminatory policies. We study an economy with private and public sectors in which workers invest in imperfectly observable skills that are important...
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Using several microeconomic data sets from the United States and the Netherlands, and the examples of height and beauty, this study examines whether: 1) Absolute or relative differences in a characteristic are what affect labor-market and other outcomes; and 2) The effects of a characteristic...
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estimated premium for above average beauty is only slightly larger than that estimated for women elsewhere, and the penalty for … commercial sex market stems both from productivity and discrimination. In addition, including controls for personal …
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This paper studies gender differences in labor market outcomes using data from an Internetbased CV database. The women … effect disappears. However, the results differ somewhat across subgroups: For highly skilled women a negative gender effect …
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Anonymous application procedures (AAP) are increasingly promoted as a way to combat employment discrimination. The idea … chances of advancing to interviews for both women and individuals of non-Western origin. Women also experienced a higher …
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In bargaining between two sellers and one buyer on prices and quantities, strategic inefficiencies arise. By reallocating between the last agreement and the first, the buyer can increase it's share of the surplus. With symmetric sellers producing substitutes, the quantities in the first...
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objective of this study is to analyze the effect of political culture and of valuation asymmetry on discrimination between the … discrimination is an endogenous variable that characterizes the mechanism allocating the prize. We consider situations under which … effect of changes in the political culture and in valuation asymmetry on the designer's preferred discrimination between the …
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History is replete with overt discrimination on the basis of race, gender, age, citizenship, ethnicity, marital status … discrimination are not equally tolerable. For example, discrimination based on immutable or prohibitively unalterable characteristics … driven by either racial (gender or ethnic) discrimination or generational discrimination (i.e., young versus old). When the …
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fallacy - one seen in the popular press and the research literature - that to measure discrimination it is sufficient to study …
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