Gegenstand der Studie sind die Auswirkungen einer Einführung des von der CDU/CSU-Bundestagsfraktion vorgeschlagenen "Familiengeldes" auf öffentliche Finanzen, Arbeitsmarkt und die wirtschaftliche Situation von Familien mit Kindern im Vorschulalter, die als Adressaten des Familiengeldes...

Caste-based quotas in hiring have existed in the public sector in India for decades. Recently there has been debate about introducing similar quotas in private sector jobs. This paper uses an audit study to determine the extent of caste-based discrimination in the Indian private sector. On...

The world's biggest and arguably most aggressive form of employment based affirmative action policy for minorities exists in India. This paper exploits the institutional features of federally mandated employment quota policy to examine its effect on labor market outcomes of two distinct minority...

Ethnic riots broke out in Malaysia in 1969, prompting a national effort at affirmative action favoring the poorer (majority) of “Bumiputera” (mainly Malays). Since then, Malaysia's official poverty measures indicate one of the fastest long-term rates of poverty reduction in the world, due to...