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This article appeals to heterogeneity in workers' non-wage preferences to model taste-based discrimination. Firms hire … both types of workers and pay lower wages to minority workers, whatever their taste for discrimination. A single prejudiced … firm in the market produces a substantial wage gap in all firms. Consequently, discrimination allows unprejudiced firms to …
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This paper offers a new representation of discrimination on the job market based on the most recent findings in the … a job) and the staff of the firm. Contrary to the classical view according to which discrimination results from …
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We propose a new method which allows for measuring separately taste based discrimination from statistical … discrimination in the hiring process. We consider two types of statistical discriminations against women: first, when a recruiter … experimental data from which we obtain optimal estimates of the discrimination components. The method is applied to three …
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, among male and female workers, and the gender wage gap, among Georgians and non-Georgians. The gender wage discrimination is … larger than the ethnic wage discrimination. In the second estimation stage, these wage discrimination estimates are used in a … general-to-specific vector autoregression framework to test for the Granger causality between discrimination and growth. A …
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discrimination. But while the Court famously invalidated several sex-based laws at the end of the twentieth century, it also issued … long-ignored cases that approved of sex discrimination, this Article explains how the Court's rulings in this area have … equal protection that authorizes certain forms of sex discrimination, (Un)Equal Protection advocates for one particular …
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tax rate on minimum wage income. We solve this alleged puzzle by introducing discrimination of individuals that do not … government policy. In the empirical part, we show that the share of inhabitants approving of labor market discrimination against …
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Using administrative tax records from South Africa for the period 2011-14, I find that firm wage premia explain 25 per cent of the total wage variance, 60 per cent of the gender wage gap, and 40 per cent of the gap between workers in the middle and the bottom of the income distribution. Next, I...
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discrimination in productive activities requiring the input of multiple agents. We show that discrimination can persist under … perfectly observable ability, when taste for discrimination has died out, and under absence of discriminatory social norms … the theoretical predictions, beliefs about discrimination are a significant correlate of self-employment rates, as well as …
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network-driven gender inequality but mitigate inequality arising from direct discrimination in internal promotions. …
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