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Racism, Segregation, Acceptance : American Economics and Black Issues, 1890-1945
Rutherford, Malcolm - 2023
The American economics profession has a tortured relationship with the study of issues relatingto Black Americans. This paper traces that history beginning with the overt racism in the periodup to about 1910. During this time, W. E. B. Du Bois' attempts to gain acceptance from theAmerican...
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An Arab, an Asian, and a Black guy walk into a job interview : ethnic stigma in hiring after controlling for social class
Borm, Hannah Van; Lippens, Louis; Baert, Stijn - 2022
Over the last decades, researchers have found compelling evidence of hiring discrimination toward ethnic minorities based on field experiments using fictitious job applications. Despite increasing efforts to discover why ethnic minorities experience hiring penalties, the academic world has not...
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The social structure of a Cape coloured reserve. A study of racial integration and segregation in South Africa
Carstens, William Peter - 1966
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Race-based educational, occupational and industry segregation and wages gaps in Trinidad and Tobago
Schimanski, Caroline; Chagalj, Cristian; Ruprah, Inder S. - 2018
sector of work and facing a large institutionalized pay difference. This raises the question whether segregation and …-based educational, occupational and industry segregation and wage gaps in Trinidad and Tobago’s private and public sector and its … segregation are with 7% in terms of the Karmel-Maclachlan index low and lower than respective gender-based segregation over the …
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To Segregate, or to Discriminate – That Is the Question : Experiment on Identity and Social Preferences
Blanco, Mariana; Guerra, José-Alberto - 2020
How do various sources of social identity affect segregation and discrimination decisions? In our laboratory experiment … socioeconomic ones do so in the Trust Game.This segregation pattern is partly explained by payoff-maximizing behavior. In the Trust …
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Do workers discriminate against their out-group employers? : evidence from the gig economy
Asad, Sher Afghan; Banerjee, Ritwik; Bhattacharya, Joydeep - 2020
We study possible worker-to-employer discrimination manifested via social preferences in an online labor market. Specifically, we ask, do workers exhibit positive social preferences for an out-race employer relative to an otherwise-identical, own-race one? We run a well-powered, model-based...
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Nudging the agents : does it reduce discrimination against migrants in the house rental market?
Zanoni López, Wladimir; Díaz, Lina; Díaz, Emily; … - 2023
This study examines the impact of a behavioral intervention on reducing discrimination against Venezuelan migrants in the screening of home rental applications conducted by Ecuadorian real estate agents (REAs). Given that Venezuelan migrants represent the second-largest migratory group globally,...
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Economic discrimination and cultural differences as barriers to migrant integration: Is reverse causality symmetric?
Kohler, Pierre - 2012
This paper examines the endogenous relationship between the economic and cultural integration of migrants in Switzerland or, more precisely, how economic and cultural barriers to integration reinforce each other. Are cultural differences preventing the successful integration of migrants or does...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316755
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Economic discrimination and cultural differences as barriers to migrant integration : is reverse causality symmetric?
Kohler, Pierre - 2012
This paper examines the endogenous relationship between the economic and cultural integration of migrants in Switzerland or, more precisely, how economic and cultural barriers to integration reinforce each other. Are cultural differences preventing the successful integration of migrants or does...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009526018
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Assimilation, criminality and ethnic conflict
Dasgupta, Indraneel; Mukherjee, Diganta - 2014
We examine the consequences, of integrating large minorities into productivity-relevant majority ethno-linguistic norms, for distribution, ethnic conflict and crime. We develop a two-community model where such assimilation generates social gains by: (a) facilitating economic interaction, and (b)...
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