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state-time variation in reservation in state legislative assemblies in India that arises from national policies that cause …
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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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On 1 March, federal ministers Annalena Baerbock and Svenja Schulze jointly presented the Guidelines for a Feminist Foreign Policy (FFP) of the Federal Foreign Office (AA) and the Strategy for a Feminist Development Policy (FDP) of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development...
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matching, bargaining and employers' taste discrimination. In equilibrium all types of employers wage discriminate women … differentials are due to labor market discrimination or to unobserved productivity differences. The objective of this paper is to …
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. Competition is between heterogeneous players where heterogeneity might be due to past discrimination. Two policy options are …
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and the data we have, propensity score matching methods are the most robust approach to estimating ethnic parity. We … by matching. In many cases, it turns out not to be possible to calculate satisfactory quantitative estimates even with … matching techniques: the characteristics of Whites and Ethnic Minorities are simply too different before the Jobcentre Plus …
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Caste-based quotas in hiring have existed in the public sector in India for decades. Recently there has been debate …-based discrimination in the Indian private sector. On average low-caste applicants need to send 20 percent more resumes than high … and low-caste applicants are not entirely due to statistical discrimination. High-caste applicants are also differentially …
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This paper presents the results of an attitude survey administered to university students in India that attempts to …
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