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-based discrimination in federally funded educational programs. The data paint a picture of considerable progress but also persistent …
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This paper offers a new representation of discrimination on the job market based on the most recent findings in the … a job) and the staff of the firm. Contrary to the classical view according to which discrimination results from …
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major) or employer discrimination against black job candidates. However, limited measures of human capital and the inherent … difficulties in measuring discrimination using observational data make determining the cause of racial differences in labor … in the labor market. Thus, both discrimination and differences in human capital contribute to racial economic inequality …
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"We investigate the role of physical appearance, in addition to race and sex, in the rate of discrimination observed in … the selection process (mainly, education and job experience), our results provide better indicators of discrimination than … the ones we could obtain through the econometric analysis of observational data. We find that discrimination based on …
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This article first parses the multiple overlapping definitions of discrimination, including distinctions between group … and individual discrimination and between segregation and discrimination in pay. The article then summarizes the major … economic models of discrimination, particularly Becker's taste-for-discrimination model and statistical-discrimination models …
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Can an employer be both an affirmative action employer and an equal opportunity employer at the same time, or are the two positions contradictory and mutually exclusive? This question was asked to ChatGPT. The response was nuanced and somewhat left-leaning and is reported in this study
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The law of accommodations within employment discrimination law evolved significantly in 2023. The Pregnant Workers … in employment discrimination law generally. Thus, accommodations law has become a microcosm of the incoherent and almost … chaotic body of employment discrimination law. The time is long past due for Congress to reasonably accommodate federal …
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In Mexico, as in most Latin American countries with indigenous populations, it is commonly believed that European phenotypes are preferred to mestizo or indigenous phenotypes. However, it is hard to test for such racial biases in the labor market using official statistics since race can only be...
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The proportion of wage workers with missing labor income has recently increased in Mexico. In this article, I correct the missing labor income through imputation methods. The official measurement of labor poverty indicates an increase from 42 to 53% in the 2005-2012 period, but poverty measured...
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In Mexico, as in most Latin American countries with indigenous populations, it is commonly believed that European phenotypes are preferred to mestizo or indigenous phenotypes. However, it is hard to test for such racial biases in the labor market using official statistics since race can only be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010823237