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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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effects on the 1960 wage gap and its subsequent reduction. Our findings suggest that anti-Asian labor market discrimination ….S.-born Asian men stemmed from a decline in anti-Asian discrimination. Although much of the policy focus of the civil rights era was … directed at reducing discrimination against blacks, our findings suggest a prominent post-Civil Rights Act labor market effect …
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, but all wage differences become negligible when the taste for discrimination is small. We analyze the effect of an equal …
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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 … for discrimination or stronger competition, equal pay legislation leads to more job segregation, and sometimes minority …
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In Romania, the communist regime promoted an official policy of gender equality for more than 40 years, providing equal access to education and employment, and restricting pay differentiation based on gender. After its fall in December 1989, the promotion of equal opportunities and treatment for...
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, but all wage differences become negligible when the taste for discrimination is small. We analyze the effect of an equal … between worker groups widens in response to the policy. -- Search model ; wage dispersion ; discrimination ; equal pay policy …
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We examine the introduction of a gender quota law in Germany, mandating a minimum 30% of the underrepresented gender on the supervisory boards of a particular type of firms. We exploit the fact that Germany has a two-tier corporate system consisting of the affected supervisory boards and...
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discrimination. In fact in can be explained by variations in the kinds of job undertaken by men and women, as well as educational and …
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This paper revisits stylized facts on female labour force participation, employment and unemployment, using a unified and up-to-date dataset with comparable information for high-income (HI) and middle-low income (MLI) countries. We find that: (i) global trends in labour supply in the last 30...
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We consider in this paper whether the gender mix at the level of decision-makers in firms can influence gender representation at the employee level. We run a laboratory experiment whereby we present a pair of independent employers with applications from two potential employees. We consider...
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