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Lipman, Francine J. - 2012

Almost fifty years ago in 1965, on the steps of the State Capital in Montgomery, Alabama, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., asked a crowd of twenty-five thousand "How long will prejudice blind the visions of men, darken their understanding, and drive bright-eyed wisdom from her sacred throne?" The...

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The Efficiency of Affirmative Action with Purely Historical Discrimination

Wickelgren, Abraham L. - 2002

When there has been past discrimination, minorities will be more able conditional on class than non-minorities. Because … ability and class both affect educational attainment, however, higher ability minorities will earn less even after … discrimination ends. Thus, the discrepancy in the ability of minorities conditional on class persists after discrimination ends. This …

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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 suggests different explanations for the existence and persistence of group inequality. This survey highlights such differences and describes in these contexts the effects of...

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Does Equal Pay Legislation Reduce Labour Market Inequality?

Kaas, Leo - 2006

This paper considers a labour market model of monopsonistic competition with taste-based discrimination against minority workers to study the effect of equal pay legislation on labour market inequality. When the taste for discrimination is small or competition is weak, the policy removes job...

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(Un)Equal Protection : Why Gender Equality Depends on Discrimination

Cunningham-Parmeter, Keith - 2016

Most accounts of the Supreme Court's equal protection jurisprudence describe the Court's firm opposition to sex discrimination. But while the Court famously invalidated several sex-based laws at the end of the twentieth century, it also issued many other, less-celebrated decisions that...

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Equal-treatment policy in a random search model with taste discrimination

Kaas, Leo; Jun, Lu - 2009

We consider a search model of the labor market with two types of equally productive workers and two types of firms, discriminators and non-discriminators. Without policy intervention, there is wage dispersion between and within the two worker groups, but all wage differences become negligible...

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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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Statistical discrimination and optimal mismatch in college major selection

Batistich, Mary Kate; Bond, Timothy N.; Linde, Sebastian; … - 2024

We develop a model of college major selection in an environment where firms and students have incomplete information about the student's aptitude. Students must choose from a continuum of majors which differ in their human capital production function and can act as a signal to the market....

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Protecting Privacy Amid Issues of Egalitarianism and Economic Efficiency

Baffi, Enrico - 2012

This paper aims to analyze theories developed both in favor and against privacy protection according to current practices in the West. In the paper, we will examine economic justifications for privacy protection as defined by American economists and jurists, as well as the advantages to be...

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Affirmative action through extra prizes

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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