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Racial wage inequality and discrimination have pervaded South African society for centuries. Apartheid legislation … decomposition methodology that tracks changes in the discrimination component of the wage gap over time. It accounts for biases … shows that 2003 was a turning point, when black-white discrimination started to decline continuously thereafter. The …
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With the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, Asians became the victims of a sudden increase in racial discrimination as … customer and employer 'taste discrimination'. The pandemic has also proven particularly harmful on businesses owned by recently …
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discrimination in the US. This paper traces three eras of Chinese property ownership and discrimination. Many Chinese first came to …, and job discrimination. I conclude that we must unearth the past history of property discrimination to address continuing … discrimination, leverage the current investment, and to seek property equity and healing communities for all …
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This article first parses the multiple overlapping definitions of discrimination, including distinctions between group … and individual discrimination and between segregation and discrimination in pay. The article then summarizes the major … economic models of discrimination, particularly Becker's taste-for-discrimination model and statistical-discrimination models …
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When there has been past discrimination, minorities will be more able conditional on class than non-minorities. Because … discrimination ends. Thus, the discrepancy in the ability of minorities conditional on class persists after discrimination ends. This … will voluntarily practice affirmative action when there has been past discrimination. This suggests that the recent laws …
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Can an employer be both an affirmative action employer and an equal opportunity employer at the same time, or are the two positions contradictory and mutually exclusive? This question was asked to ChatGPT. The response was nuanced and somewhat left-leaning and is reported in this study
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discrimination in hiring against slum dwellers. We sent 4,290 online pairs of fictitious job applications of otherwise … applicants living in slums received nearly 28 percent fewer callbacks than other applicants. We observe discrimination across … jobs that require a university degree, with discrimination being concentrated in administrative and software …
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effects on the 1960 wage gap and its subsequent reduction. Our findings suggest that anti-Asian labor market discrimination ….S.-born Asian men stemmed from a decline in anti-Asian discrimination. Although much of the policy focus of the civil rights era was … directed at reducing discrimination against blacks, our findings suggest a prominent post-Civil Rights Act labor market effect …
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This paper uses Social Security longitudinal earnings records matched to Current Population Survey data to examine changes in the relative earnings of Hispanic men during a period of dramatic change in public and private policies toward race and ethnicity characterized by, but not limited to,...
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Termination of pregnancy (TOP) or feticide for severe fetal anomalies is ethically and morally challenging and maybe considered illegal in countries with restrictive abortion laws. While diagnostic modalities such as fetal ultrasound, magnetic resonance imaging, and genetic screening have...
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