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created daily, the problem of inequality is becoming more and more visible. But, lulled into the commonly stated maxim that “a …
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Starts out with a survey of various formal theories that have focused on discrimination in the labor market. Argues that Becker’s traditional taste for discrimination model, the various statistical discrimination models and the new cultural communication cost models ultimately yield...
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US public education is a powerful promoter of the growth of earnings inequality and racial discrimination. Examines the …
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is a major factor behind ethnic inequality and found to be largely without merit. Also critically examines the more … Afro‐Americans. Argues that an emphasis on family structure does not absolve society of responsibility for inequality, nor …
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inequality is disappearing in residential credit markets. These results suggest that for African Americans and Latinos, racial …
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inequality in water usage. Design/methodology/approach Gini coefficients and Theil indices have been used to estimate the overall … inequality in domestic water use in a sample of 30 countries around the world. Along with Theil’s L (unweighted) index, liters … inequality in water use in accordance to the countries’ economic standing. Findings Domestic water use is high among the well …
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Purpose As an alternative poverty analysis approach, the purpose of this paper is to map the patterns of multiple deprivation in all 13 administrative regions of Namibia using the National Household Income and Expenditure Survey data. Design/methodology/approach Unsupervised statistical learning...
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communities as a nexus of social and spatial relations within the context of urban inequality. It is concerned with the phenomenon … demographic groups, it institutionalises this already extant stratification. The paper, therefore, uses social inequality and the …. It contributes to the discussion in which social difference and inequality have become more marked features of urban …
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inequality. This paper presents an experiment which disentangles concerns for risk and inequality in a social risk context … terms of dispersion. We disentangle four types of dispersion: ex ante inequality, ex post inequality, individual risk, and … collective risk. The results show that people are averse towards ex ante inequality and individual risk, whereas they are ex post …
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