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"One Muslim is Enough!" - Evidence from a Field Experiment in France

Adida, Claire L.; Laitin, David D.; Valfort, Marie-Anne - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

driven by the activation of rooted French taste-based discrimination against Muslims when Muslim numbers increase. Our …

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Religious Minorities and Provision of Public Goods: Evidence from Rural West Bengal

Kumar Das, Pranab; Kar, Saibal; Kayal, Madhumanti - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Religious and ethnic minorities across the world face partisan treatment with regard to provision of public goods, either as outcome of discriminatory practices or due to historical antecedents, such as the caste and religious divides in India. In several districts of West Bengal in India...

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Identification, Screening and Stereotyping in Labour Market Discrimination

Vendrik, Maarten; Schwieren, Christiane - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

) reduction of uncertainty by information search, leading to less stereotyping of people, and hence less discrimination; (ii … discrimination against an outgroup. We integrate both responses in a microeconomic model of hiring and pay decisions by an employer … hence enhances discrimination. …

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Restrictive Immigration Policies and Latino Immigrant Identity in the United States

Massey, Douglas; Sánchez R., Magaly - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

with Americans and American society, the more aware they become of the harsh realities of prejudice and discrimination and … immigrants comes not from foreign involvements or transnational loyalties, but from the rejection, exclusion, and discrimination …

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The Prostitute's Allure: Examining Returns to Beauty, Productivity and Discrimination

Arunachalam, Raj; Shah, Manisha - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

commercial sex market stems both from productivity and discrimination. In addition, including controls for personal …

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Ethnic Discrimination in the Market Place of Small Business Transfers

Ahmed, Ali M; Andersson, Lina; Hammarstedt, Mats - In: Economics Bulletin 29 (2009) 4, pp. 3050-3058

This paper presents the first field experiment regarding ethnic discrimination in the market place of small business …

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Intergenerational Transfer of Human Capital under Post-War Distress: The Displaced and the Roma in the Former Yugoslavia

Kahanec, Martin; Yuksel, Mutlu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

In this chapter, we investigate the effects of vulnerability on income and employment in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia using a unique 2004 UNDP dataset. Treating the collapse of the former Yugoslavia as a natural experiment, we compare three groups that have been...

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The Overlap of the Federal Sex Discrimination and Industrial Relations Jurisdictions: Intersections and Demarcations in Conciliation

Charlesworth, Sara - In: Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) 6 (2003) 4, pp. 559-577

The jurisdictional overlap created between federal industrial relations and sex discrimination law from the late 1980s … promised to provide working women with greater scope to pursue claims of sex discrimination. Drawing on an analysis of … relations and sex discrimination law provides a space for challenges to sex discrimination in employment from different vantage …

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Fiscal Discriminations in Three Wars

Hall, George J.; Sargent, Thomas J. - Department of Economics, International Business School, … - 2013

greatly in the returns it paid to different classes of creditors; but that pattern of discrimination diminished over time in …

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Utilitarianism and Discrimination

Segal, Uzi; Harel, Alon - Department of Economics, Boston College - 2012

Since Becker (1971), a common argument against asymmetric norms that promote minority rights over those of the majority is that such policies reduce total welfare. While this may be the case, we show that there are simple environments where aggregate sum of individual utilities is actually...

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