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attitudes toward LGBTI, LGBTI rights and perceived discrimination among LGBTI. It goes on to discuss the empirical strategies … at school and suffer academically; (iii) LGBTI face hiring and wage discrimination; (iv) LGBTI show higher rates of … physical and mental health problems, in particular due to social rejection. The paper concludes by reviewing anti-discrimination …
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Do gender disparities in academia reflect that female scholars are held to higher standards than males? We address this question by comparing the scientific merit of male and female academic economists who make the same career step. Across four domains - i.e. faculty positions, network...
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for older women against employers' discriminatory behavior: the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) and Title VII … adequate protection for older women. The main reason for this concern is that older women's intersectional discrimination … discrimination and the importance of recognizing this intersectionality in proof structure. It also reviews case laws and the …
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We propose a competitive general equilibrium theory of gender discrimination in labor market where male and female … discrimination. Pioneering works of Becker (1957) and Arrow (1973), in terms of partial equilibrium models, have argued that the … forces of competition would restrict subjective discrimination which leads to increasing cost for a firm and reduce the …
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This article first parses the multiple overlapping definitions of discrimination, including distinctions between group … and individual discrimination and between segregation and discrimination in pay. The article then summarizes the major … economic models of discrimination, particularly Becker's taste-for-discrimination model and statistical-discrimination models …
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This chapter surveys the theoretical literature on statistical discrimination and affirmative action. This literature …
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Typically, workplace discrimination is approached from the perspective of a particular dimension (e.g., race or gender …). This offers insight but also obscures important communality among different types of discrimination. We propose a construct … of generalized workplace discrimination that clarifies the overlap among different types of discriminatory experiences …
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Using a choice experiment, we test whether taste-based employee discrimination against ethnic minorities is susceptible … hypothetical wage penalty for discriminatory choice behaviour lowers discrimination and that higher penalties have a greater effect …
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major) or employer discrimination against black job candidates. However, limited measures of human capital and the inherent … difficulties in measuring discrimination using observational data make determining the cause of racial differences in labor … in the labor market. Thus, both discrimination and differences in human capital contribute to racial economic inequality …
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-household specialization among same-sex couples. Additional evidence is then provided in order to investigate whether these changes were driven … by a reduction in discrimination, a marriage premium in wages, or changes in fertility, assortative matching and …
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