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A delegation of labour scholars and practitioners first came to our university, the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, in 2006, to engage with colleagues about establishing the Global Labour University on our campus. It was to be the second site after Germany, and we were all...
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outcomes and poor housing conditions. Our findings on income-achievement gaps across race could partially explain the different … intergenerational mobility outcomes by race documented by others. …
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lower weights than rural residents. Urban net nutrition varied by race, and urban whites and blacks had lower BMIs, shorter …
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It is almost universally assumed that race is an exogenously given trait that is not subject to change. But as race is … broader trends in racial disparities, and the emerging literature on the construction of race and individual identity. …
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sustained or significant desegregation. Occupations remain highly segmented by race, with blacks disproportionally holding low …
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. Arguably causal impacts of exposure to same-sex and same-race instructors on course-specific outcomes such as course grades are … or A-) by one percentage point (3%) and having an other-race instructor reduces the likelihood of receiving a good grade …
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Between 1940 and 1970, more than 4 million African Americans moved from the South to the North of the United States, during the Second Great Migration. This same period witnessed the struggle and eventual success of the civil rights movement in ending institutionalized racial discrimination....
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How do social group boundaries evolve? Does the appearance of a new out-group change the in-group's perceptions of other out-groups? We introduce a conceptual framework of context-dependent categorization, in which exposure to one minority leads to recategorization of other minorities when the...
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