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Perceived fairness and consequences of affirmative action policies

Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah; Trieu, Chi; Willrodt, Jana - 2020

, either due to bad luck (discrimination), low productivity, or choice of a short working time. Higher fairness perceptions …

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Perceived fairness and consequences of affirmative action policies

Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah; Trieu, Chi; Willrodt, Jana - 2020

, either due to bad luck (discrimination), low productivity, or choice of a short working time. Higher fairness perceptions …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012210412

Chapter 4. Equality of Opportunity

Roemer, John E.; Trannoy, Alain - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 217-300). 2015

The modern formulation of equality of opportunity emerges from discussions in political philosophy from the second half of the twentieth century beginning with Rawls (1971) and Dworkin (1981a,b) . Equality of opportunity exists when policies compensate individuals with disadvantageous...

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Perceived fairness and consequences of affirmative action policies

Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah; Schwarz, Marco; Trieu, Chi; … - 2022

performance is low, either due to discrimination, low productivity, or choice of a short working time. Affirmative action favoring …

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Reversal of Envy

Sultana, R. - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2011

Studies of compensating discrimination (known in the U.S. as affirmative action) have not accounted for the role of … incomes because of unequal education and employment opportunities. This is the case when, because of adverse discrimination … discrimination, it is high-caste people who are correspondingly denied equal access. A benchmark case with neither adverse nor …

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Fighting gender inequality in Sweden

André, Christophe; Bourrousse, Hugo - 2017

Sweden ranks among the best OECD countries in terms of gender equality. Women have a high employment rate, outperform men in education and are well represented in government and parliament. Nevertheless, without further policy measures, achieving parity is still a distant prospect in several...

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Promoting gender equality to strengthen economic growth and resilience

André, Christophe - 2023

Women’s employment rates and wages are still lagging those of men across OECD countries, with average employment and wage gaps now around 15% and 12% respectively. Gaps narrowed at a relatively modest pace over the past decade, calling for further policy action. A lack of affordable...

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Who Is in Favor of Affirmative Action? Representative Evidence from an Experiment and a Survey

Herzog, Sabrina; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah; Trieu, Chi; … - 2023

Although affirmative action remains controversial, little is known about who supports or opposes it and why. This paper investigates preferences for affirmative action by combining causal evidence from an experiment on the role of self-serving motives and in-group favoritism with survey data on...

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Who Is in Favor of Affirmative Action? Representative Evidence from an Experiment and a Survey

Herzog, Sabrina; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah; Trieu, Chi; … - 2023

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Government-Mandated Discriminatory Policies

Norman, Peter; Fang, Hanming - 2008

This paper provides a simple explanation for why some minority groups are economically successful, despite being subject to government-mandated discriminatory policies. We study an economy with private and public sectors in which workers invest in imperfectly observable skills that are important...

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