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channels through which occupational segregation and pay discrimination affect the overall gender wage gap in different sectors … model estimates confirm that gender-based pay discrimination is small in the government sector in Egypt and quite high by … was quite prevalent in state owned enterprises, amounting to half of the discrimination component. These findings …
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antidiscrimination law across a variety of contexts including discrimination in labor markets, housing markets, consumer purchases, and … policing. The different models of discrimination based on animus, statistical discrimination, and cartel exploitation are … analyzed for both race and sex discrimination. I explore the theoretical arguments for prohibiting private discriminatory …
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. However, positive characteristics mitigate discrimination against headscarf and even reverse it. …
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discrimination. Does a real will exist, and if so why is it so inefficient or so poorly implemented? What forms do individual and …
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Using microeconomic data sets from the United States and the Netherlands, this study considers how agents perceive characteristics that are discriminated against. It uses the examples of beauty and height to examine whether: 1) Absolute or relative differences in a characteristic affect...
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This chapter surveys the theoretical literature on statistical discrimination and affirmative action. This literature …
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discrimination in productive activities requiring the input of multiple agents. We show that discrimination can persist under … perfectly observable ability, when taste for discrimination has died out, and under absence of discriminatory social norms … the theoretical predictions, beliefs about discrimination are a significant correlate of self-employment rates, as well as …
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Correspondence studies can identify the extent of discrimination in hiring as typically defined by the law, which … includes discrimination against ethnic minorities and females. However, as Heckman and Siegelman (1993) show, if employers act … upon a group difference in the variance of unobserved variables, this measure of discrimination may not be very informative …
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This article appeals to heterogeneity in workers' non-wage preferences to model taste-based discrimination. Firms hire … both types of workers and pay lower wages to minority workers, whatever their taste for discrimination. A single prejudiced … firm in the market produces a substantial wage gap in all firms. Consequently, discrimination allows unprejudiced firms to …
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