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Defining Generalized Workplace Discrimination

Sims, Carra; Dalal, Reeshad S. - 2010

Typically, workplace discrimination is approached from the perspective of a particular dimension (e.g., race or gender …). This offers insight but also obscures important communality among different types of discrimination. We propose a construct … of generalized workplace discrimination that clarifies the overlap among different types of discriminatory experiences …

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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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The Incentive Effects of Affirmative Action in a Real-Effort Tournament

Calsamiglia, Caterina; Franke, Jörg; Rey-Biel, Pedro - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2009

Affirmative-action policies bias tournament rules in order to provide equal opportunities to a group of competitors who have a disadvantage they cannot be held responsible for. Critics argue that they distort incentives, resulting in lower individual performance, and that the selected pool of...

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The incentive effects of affirmative action in a real-effort tournament

Calsamiglia, Caterina; Franke, Jörg; Rey-Biel, Pedro - In: Journal of Public Economics 98 (2013) C, pp. 15-31

Affirmative action policies bias tournament rules in order to provide equal opportunities to a group of competitors who have a disadvantage they cannot be held responsible for. Its implementation affects the underlying incentive structure which might induce lower performance by participants, and...

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Determinants of public education expenditure : evidence from Indian states

Chatterji, Monojit; Mohan, Sushil; Dastidar, Sayantan Ghosh - 2014

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Competitive balance : information disclosure and discrimination in an asymmetric contest

Clark, Derek J.; Kundu, Tapas - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 184 (2021), pp. 178-198

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Affirmative Action Policy and Effort Levels. Sequential-Move Contest Game Argument

Kwiatkowski, Andrzej - Scottish Institute for Research in Economics (SIRE) - 2010

heterogeneity could be the consequence of past discrimination, we study the effects of implementation of affirmative action policy …

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Early Intervention to Prevent Persistent Homelessness : Predictive Models for Identifying Unemployed Workers and Young Adults who become Persistently Homeless

Toros, Halil - 2019

Two new predictive screening tools that are based on analyzing records of over one-million people who experienced homelessness have been placed in the public domain by the Economic Roundtable. The two groups targeted by these tools are low-wage workers who have just lost their jobs and youth...

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10-Year Strategy to End Homelessness

Flaming, Daniel - 2016

The acute deprivation, desperation, and chaos inherent in homelessness destabilize the lives of individuals and also communities. In restoring shelter and intactness to the lives of placeless residents we also restore the health of our communities. This is a crisis that truly confronts every...

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Social Security and Gender : Brazilian and World Practices

Beltrao, Kaizo I.; Novellino, Maria S.; Barreto de … - 2002

Social security is concerned on easing the impact of contingencies that lead to capacity loss for generating income. There are, however, conceptual differences between genders with respect to social security contributions and benefits. This text is concerned with equality and specificity in the...

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