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Racial Discrimination in Local Public Services : A Field Experiment in the US
Giulietti, Corrado - 2015
Discrimination in access to public services can act as a major obstacle towards addressing racial inequality. We … examine whether racial discrimination exists in access to a wide spectrum of public services in the US. We carry out an email …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013013081
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Racial Discrimination in Local Public Services : A Field Experiment in the US
Giulietti, Corrado - 2015
Discrimination in access to public services can act as a major obstacle towards addressing racial inequality. We … examine whether racial discrimination exists in access to a wide spectrum of public services in the US. We carry out an email …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016203
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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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Border apprehensions and federal sentencing of Hispanic citizens in the United States
Bertoli, Simone; Laouénan, Morgane; Valette, Jérôme - 2023
conveying legally relevant information to judges. Thus, we provide direct evidence for time-varying discrimination toward …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013499448
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Occupational segregation by race and ethnicity in the US : differences across states
Gradín, Carlos; Río Otero, Coral del; Alonso Villar, Olga - 2011
Using the 2005-2007 American Community Survey, we analyze the occupational segregation of workers by race and ethnicity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011555092
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The impact of quality management systems on the effects of the process approach implementation
Gębczyńska, Alicja; Wolniak, Radosław - In: Economic and environmental studies : a journal for … 18 (2018) 4/48, pp. 1235-1260
The article provides a discussion on results of extensive empirical research conducted in 2016 on a sample of 495 local government authorities, using the CAWI questionnaire technique supported by the CATI survey. The results thus obtained were verified in statistical terms and then critically...
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Voting Rules, Turnout, and Economic Policies
Cantoni, Enrico; Pons, Vincent; Schäfer, Jérôme - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
In recent years, voter ID laws and convenience voting have generated heated partisan debates. To shed light on these policy issues, we survey the recent evidence on the institutional determinants and effects of voter turnout and broaden the perspective beyond the most debated rules. We begin by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015072883
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Ethnic diversity and attitudes towards redistribution : a review of the literature
Stichnoth, Holger; Van der Straeten, Karine - 2009
We review the empirical literature that studies the effect of ethnic diversity on the welfare state and on individual attitudes. The outcome variables that we cover in the survey are on the one hand public spending, and on the other hand individual attitudes and behaviour, including charity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003857714
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What can experiments tell us about how to improve governance?
Gisselquist, Rachel M.; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel - 2013
In recent years, randomized controlled trials have become increasingly popular in the social sciences. In development economics in particular, their use has attracted considerable debate in relation to the identification of 'what works' in development policy. This paper focuses on a core topic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009783129
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Transnational social mobility of minorities : a comparative analysis of 14 immigrant minority groups
In: IZA Journal of development and migration 8 (2018) 15, pp. 1-21
There is extensive scholarship on the condition of being a minority in one’s home country and vast literature on the experience of immigrants in host countries. However, almost no attention has been paid to the distinct mechanisms pertaining to immigrants who were minorities in the source...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011896645