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This paper studies the effect of competition on ethnic discrimination by carrying out a field experiment in the context … and survey information indicate that local and wholesale buyers do not have different tastes for discrimination. This … suggests that market competition can eliminate the discrimination of wholesale buyers. …
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This paper uses data from the BRFSS over the period 2014-2019 to analyse the impact of removing surgical requirements to change legal gender. In many states transgender people are forced to undergo surgical procedures if they wish to change their gender on ID documents, which can be invasive,...
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groups in many societies. Group-based discrimination, among other factors, contributes. The paper further explores empirical …
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UK experience higher poverty rates than heterosexual and cis people. However, in these two regions, anti-discrimination …
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and whether to migrate in their adulthood. Assuming a rent-extraction basis for discrimination, we first endogenize ethnic … discrimination in the benchmark case of an economy closed to migration, and then explore how migration prospects affect ethnic … on the minority. Moreover, the optimal discrimination rate (from the majority’s perspective) is shown to be such that …
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In this paper, we use a randomized field experiment in Sweden to investigate how self-employment experience is valued in the labor market. We find that self-employment experience negatively impacts the probability of receiving a positive response from employers. For male applicants, this holds...
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A large body of research documents the existence of discrimination against migrants and ethnic minorities in the labour … market. This study investigates for Austria, to what degree employment discrimination against ethnic minorities is mitigated … and ethnic photographs, black but not Asian job applicants suffered from discrimination. With a local sounding name …
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in the face of anti-discrimination policies represents a cause for concern and indicates the need for comprehensive …
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UK experience higher poverty rates than heterosexual and cis people. However, in these two regions, anti-discrimination …
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In the NBA, predominantly Black players play in front of predominantly non-Black fans. Using the 'NBA bubble', a natural experiment induced by COVID-19, we show that the performance of Black players improved significantly with the absence of fans vis-à-vis White players. This is consistent with...
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