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Dahm, Matthias; Esteve, Patricia - 2014

Some affirmative action policies establish that a set of disadvantaged competitors has access to an extra prize. We analyse the effects of creating an extra prize by reducing the prize in the main competition. Contestants differ in ability and agents with relatively low ability belong to a...

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All-pay auctions with extra prize : a partial exclusion principle

Dahm, Matthias - 2017

This paper studies the effects of a specific affirmative action policy in complete information all-pay auctions when players differ in ability. We call this policy an extra prize. The contest organiser splits the prize of the competition into a main prize and an extra prize. Extra prizes differ...

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The Disability–Employability Divide : Bottlenecks to Equal Opportunity

Areheart, Bradley A.; Stein, Michael Ashley - 2018

Joseph Fishkin’s new book, Bottlenecks, reinvigorates the concept of equal opportunity by simultaneously engaging with its complications and attempting to simplify its ambitions. Fishkin describes bottlenecks as narrow spaces in the opportunity structure through which people must pass if they...

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Affirmative action in contest games

Franke, Jörg - In: European journal of political economy 28 (2012) 1, pp. 105-118

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Affirmative action through extra prizes

Dahm, Matthias; Esteve-González, Patricia - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 153 (2018), pp. 123-142

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Chapter 5. Theories of Statistical Discrimination and Affirmative Action: A Survey

Fang, Hanming; Moro, Andrea - In: Handbook of social economics : volume 1, (pp. 133-200). 2011

This chapter surveys the theoretical literature on statistical discrimination and affirmative action. This literature …

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Anonymous job applications and hiring discrimination : anonymous job applications can level the playing field in access to jobs but cannot prevent all forms of discrimination

Rinne, Ulf - 2014

The use of anonymous job applications to combat hiring discrimination is gaining attention and interest. Results from a …

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Double jeopardy? : caste, affirmative action, and stigma

Deshpande, Ashwini - 2016

This paper presents the results of an attitude survey administered to university students in India that attempts to delineate the social-psychological mechanisms of 'externalization' and 'internalization' to understand the possible consequences of stigma associated with caste-based affirmative...

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Affirmative action around the world : insights from a new dataset (update)

Gisselquist, Rachel M.; Kim, Min J.; Schotte, Simone; … - 2024

Affirmative action, or positive discrimination favouring the members of marginalized populations, is a key policy …

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Population Aging, Age Discrimination, and Age Discrimination Protections at the 50th Anniversary of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act

Button, Patrick - 2019

. Evidence examining whether age discrimination is a barrier for seniors as they try to increase their work lives through the … common practice of "bridge" jobs is also presented. After discussing the evidence that measures age discrimination, economics … and legal research that seeks to determine to what extent the federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act and state …

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