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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 …

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Implementing (un)fair procedures? : favoritism and process fairness when inequality is inevitable

Schmidt, Robert J.; Trautmann, Stefan T. - 2019

We study allocation behavior when outcome inequality is inevitable but a fair process is feasible, as in selecting one person from several candidates for a job or award. We show that allocators may be influenced by inappropriate criteria, impeding the implementation of a fair process. We study...

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Higher Education and Equality of Opportunity in Italy

Peragine, Vito; Serlenga, Laura - 2021

This paper proposes a definition of equality of educational opportunities. Then, it develops a comprehensive model that allows to test for the existence of equality of opportunity in a given distribution and to rank distributions according to equality of opportunity. Finally, it provides an...

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Inherited Discrimination and Inequality

Mialon, Sue H. - 2022

signaling, this paper shows that income inequality motivates discrimination against low-income group. It is parents' investment …This paper examines the relationship between inequality and discrimination. Using a simple model of competitive … on their children's signaling that interlinks inequality and discrimination and causes them to be inherited by future …

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Circumstances and determination of individual outcomes in Bolivia : family background and equality of opportunities (2003-2013)

Herrera Jiménez, Alejandro; Villegas Quino, Horacio - 2016

We analyze the effect of some circumstances, i.e. exogenously determined individual characteristics, over individual income and likewise over achieved years of education. Gathering information for Bolivia and applying the theoretical scheme of Equality of Opportunity, this paper identifies as...

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Parental education and the rising transmission of income between generations

Connolly, Marie; Haeck, Catherine; Laliberté, Jean-William - 2020

between children of parents with and without secondary education. However, the transmission of residual parental income …

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Why inter-caste inequality in educational attainment still persists? : wealth and caste discrimination matters

Thorat, Sukhadeo K.; Khan, Khalid - In: The Indian economic journal 71 (2023) 1, pp. 256-275

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Inequality in Human Capital and Endogenous Credit Constraints

Hai, Rong - 2018

This paper studies the determinants of inequality in human capital with particular emphasis on the role of the credit constraints. We develop and estimate a model in which individuals are subject to uninsured human capital risks and invest in education, acquire work experience, accumulate...

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Benefitting from globalisation and technological change in Australia

Sila, Urban; Hemmings, Philip J. - 2019

Australia has seen large rises in living standards over the last decades across the whole of the income distribution. Technological change and international trade have contributed to this success, but have also brought structural change. Some industries have declined, while others flourished....

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Cato's Project on Poverty and Inequality in California : Final Report

Tanner, Michael - 2022

COVID-19 has been a tragedy for California. More than 4 million Californians have contracted the disease, and over 64,000 have died from it. And beyond the cost of illness and death, the pandemic and the state’s actions to contain it have devastated California’s economy. Low-income and...

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