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Divided we stand? Professional consensus and political conflict in academic economics
Beyer, Karl M.; Pühringer, Stephan - 2019
In this paper we address the issue of the role of ideology and political preferences of publically engaged economists and contribute to the debate on consensus in economics. To do so, we conduct a social network analysis on the signatories of economist petitions, which we identify as one channel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012140684
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Divided we stand? : professional consensus and political conflict in academic economics
Beyer, Karl M.; Pühringer, Stephan - 2019
In this paper we address the issue of the role of ideology and political preferences of publically engaged economists and contribute to the debate on consensus in economics. To do so, we conduct a social network analysis on the signatories of economist petitions, which we identify as one channel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012124648
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The gender wage gap : extent, trends, and explanations
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2016
experimental evidence strongly suggests that discrimination cannot be discounted. Psychological attributes or noncognitive skills …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011417670
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The gender wage gap : extent, trends, and explanations
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2016
experimental evidence strongly suggests that discrimination cannot be discounted. Psychological attributes or noncognitive skills …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450031
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Gender differences in political career progression : evidence from U.S. elections
Brown, Ryan; Mansour, Hani; O'Connell, Stephen D.; … - 2019
This paper establishes the presence of a substantial gender gap in the relationship between state legislature service and the subsequent pursuit of a Congressional career. The empirical approach uses a sample of mixed-gender elections to compare the differential political career progression of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012064423
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Gender differences in political career progression : evidence from U.S. elections
Brown, Ryan; Mansour, Hani; O'Connell, Stephen D.; … - 2019
This paper establishes the presence of a substantial gender gap in the relationship between state legislature service and the subsequent pursuit of a Congressional career. The empirical approach uses a sample of mixed-gender elections to compare the differential political career progression of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012100340
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The effect of the 2016 United States presidential election on employment discrimination
Gorzig, Marina Mileo; Rho, Deborah - 2020
We examine whether employment discrimination increased after the 2016 presidential election in the United States. We … difference between white and Somali American applicants increased by 8 percentage points. The increased discrimination … 2018 to test for seasonality in discrimination; there was no substantial increase in discrimination after the 2017 election. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012306403
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Do stronger employment discrimination protections decrease reliance on social security disability insurance? : evidence from the U.S. social security reforms
Button, Patrick; Khan, Mashfiqur R. - 2020
discrimination laws moderated these spillovers, using variation whereby many state laws are broader or stronger than federal law. We … stronger features of state disability discrimination laws reduce both SSDI applications and receipt. We do not find much … evidence that age discrimination laws reduce spillovers to SSDI. These results suggest that broader and stronger disability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012214821
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Strike three : umpires' demand for discrimination
Parsons, Christopher A.; Sulaeman, Johan; Yates, Michael C. - 2008
measures of salary discrimination that adjust for measured productivity may be flawed. We derive the magnitude of the bias …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793465
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Tall or taller, pretty or prettier : is discrimination absolute or relative?
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2012
. -- beauty ; height ; discrimination ; market responses …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009545351