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Inherited Discrimination and Inequality
Mialon, Sue H. - 2022
This paper examines the relationship between inequality and discrimination. Using a simple model of competitive … signaling, this paper shows that income inequality motivates discrimination against low-income group. It is parents' investment … on their children's signaling that interlinks inequality and discrimination and causes them to be inherited by future …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013297312
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Fiscal policy, labour market, and inequality : diagnosing South Africa's anomalies in the shadow of racial discrimination
D'Agostino, Giorgio; Giuli, Francesco; Lorusso, Marco; … - 2020
Inequality in South Africa is the enduring legacy of racial discrimination. We use a dynamic perspective to show the … linkages between persistent effects of discrimination in the labour market and the efficacy of redistributive fiscal policy in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012299604
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Women's potential earnings distributions
Maasoumi, Esfandiar; Wang, Le - In: Essays in honor of M. Hashem Pesaran : panel modeling, …, (pp. 229-252). 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013194128
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Can normative accounts of discrimination be guided by anti-discrimination law? should they? : a critical note on Sophia Moreau's faces of inequality : a theory of wrongful discrimi...
Dinur, Rona - In: Erasmus journal for philosophy and economics : EJPE 15 (2022) 2, pp. 137-148
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013539112
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Referral Hiring, Endogenous Social Networks, and Inequality : An Agent-Based Analysis
Gemkow, Simon - 2010
The importance of referral hiring which is workers finding employment via social contacts is nowadays an empirically well documented fact. It also has been shown that social networks for finding jobs can create stratification. These analyses are by and large based on exogenous network...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135855
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Inherited Discrimination and Inequality
Mialon, Sue H. - 2022
This paper examines the relationship between inequality and discrimination. Using a simple model of competitive … signaling, this paper shows that income inequality motivates discrimination against low-income group. It is parents' investment … on their children's signaling that interlinks inequality and discrimination and causes them to be inherited by future …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013297289
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Inherited Inequality and Discrimination
Mialon, Sue H. - 2022
This paper examines the relationship between inequality and discrimination. Using a simple model of competitive … signaling, this paper shows that income inequality induces discrimination against low-income group. The influence of income is … through the children's race, which enables discrimination against the race of low-income group, racial discrimination. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014242737
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Do high incomes reflect individual performance? The determinants of high incomes in Germany
Hirschel, Dierk - 2003
In neoclassical economic theory the level of individual income is predominantly determined by individual job … or sexual discrimination. …In der neoklassischen ökonomischen Theorie wird das individuelle Einkommen durch die individuelle Job …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290485
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Chapter 12. Gender Inequality
Ponthieux, Sophie; Meurs, Dominique - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 981-1146). 2015
The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of course the still far from equal sharing of housework, the chapter also reviews research on gender inequality in access to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025339
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Within-group inequality and caste-based crimes in India
Bhowmik, Kanishka; Dasgupta, Indraneel; Pal, Sarmistha - 2024
We examine how within-group inequality, by influencing the group bias of state institutions such as the police and the judiciary, affects the cost-benefit calculus of individuals engaging in identity-assertive behaviour, that results in police complaints regarding hate crimes. We develop a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015078038