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The Bank's Market Power and the Interest Rate Elasticity of Demand for Housing: An Econometric Study of Discrimination on French Mortgage Data

Gary-Bobo, Robert J.; Larribeau, Sophie - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

We specify several variants of a structural econometric model explaining mortgage interest rates and loan sizes simultaneously. The models are estimated by simultaneous equation methods with a sample of loan files originated from a French mortgage lender. They yield estimates of the...

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Labor Markets in South Africa During Apartheid

Mariotti, Martine - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Conventional wisdom holds that international political pressure and domestic civil unrest in the mid-1970s and 1980s brought an end to apartheid in South Africa. I show that, prior to these events, labor market pressure in the late 1960s/early 1970s caused a dramatic unraveling of apartheid in...

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Socially-Tolerable Discrimination

Amegashie, J. Atsu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

History is replete with overt discrimination on the basis of race, gender, age, citizenship, ethnicity, marital status … discrimination are not equally tolerable. For example, discrimination based on immutable or prohibitively unalterable characteristics … either racial (gender or ethnic) discrimination or generational discrimination (i.e., young versus old). When the conflicts …

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Business Practices of Wal-Mart in Northwest Indiana

Rao, Surekha; O'Dell, CYnthia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

Wal-Mart symbolizes the strength of economic and commercial activity in any region. Wal-Mart has built a business empire on its low-cost model. Customers love Wal-Mart stores for its low prices. At the same time, Wal-Mart is under a barrage of criticism for labor practices and indirect burdens...

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Gender Interactions Within Hierarchies: Evidence from the Political Arena

Gagliarducci, Stefano; Paserman, M. Daniele - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

This paper studies gender interactions within hierarchical organizations using a large data set on the duration of Italian municipal governments elected between 1993 and 2003. A municipal government can be viewed as a hierarchy, whose stability over time depends on the degree of cooperation...

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Competition, Takeovers and Gender Discrimination

Heyman, Fredrik; Svaleryd, Helena; Vlachos, Jonas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

Theories of taste-based discrimination predict that competitive pressures will drive discriminatory behaviour out of …

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Felt discrimination increases offensiveness of stereotyped out-group depictions

Leak, Roland L; Woodham, Omar P; Stone, George W - In: Journal of Consumer Marketing 32 (2015) 1, pp. 26-33

Purpose – This paper aims to investigate the effects of minorities’ who experienced discrimination on perceptions of … ANOVA and bootstrapping methodologies. Findings – Minorities who report experiencing more discrimination perceive more …

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Disability and the labour market: a review of the empirical evidence

Jones, Melanie K. - In: Journal of Economic Studies 35 (2008) 5, pp. 405-424

discrimination from unobserved differences in productivity and preferences, the influence of heterogeneity within the disabled group …

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Can imports mitigate racial earnings inequality?

Agesa, Jacqueline; Agesa, Richard U.; Lopes, Carlos - In: Journal of Economic Studies 38 (2011) 2, pp. 156-170

eliminate racial wage discrimination. Design/methodology/approach – This paper utilizes quantile regression to examine the … industry over the sample period to examine whether global competition is a viable means to eliminate racial wage discrimination …‐ and medium‐skill non‐union whites. However, imports cannot mitigate racial earnings discrimination for non‐union workers …

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Even education has its limits: closing the wage gap

Epstein, Gil S.; Gafni, Dalit; Siniver, Erez - In: Journal of Economic Studies 42 (2015) 5, pp. 908-928

Purpose – Economic outcomes are compared for university graduates in Israel belonging to four different ethnic groups. A unique data set is used that includes all individuals who graduated with a first degree from universities and colleges in Israel between the years 1995 and 2008 and which...

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