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Intersectionality and Discrimination An Examination of the U.S. Labor Market
In 1989, Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term “intersectionality” to describe the interdependent and overlap** systems of discrimination and...
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Taste-Based Discrimination
Becker’s (The economics of discrimination. Chicago University Press, Chicago, 1957) book introduces the concept of taste-based discrimination. This...
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Discrimination in Credit
This chapter provides a thematic discussion of discrimination in credit. Through a selective review of the literature, I illustrate that caste,...
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Dimensions of Discrimination: Discrimination in Housing
People from religious or ethnic minorities or other historically disadvantaged groups frequently face discrimination when they seek rental housing....
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Discrimination as Focal Point
This chapter presents a theory of discrimination for markets in which there are complementarities between different tasks. It is shown that, in such...
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Evidence of Intersectional Wage Discrimination and an Examination of Possible Pre-market Discrimination
To determine whether wage discrimination in the U.S. labor market is intersectional, we compare estimated discrimination rates to expected...
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Decompositions: Accounting for Discrimination
This chapter summarizes the different regression-based decomposition methods used in the empirical literature to evaluate discrimination. Starting...
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Does discrimination in lending still persist?
A common perception is that lending discrimination on the basis of race exists. Whether that perception is correct has been the subject for...
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Gender Discrimination
This chapter provides a bird’s eye view of the literature on gender discrimination. The presentation of studies is grouped into five parts. Part 1...
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Handbook on Economics of Discrimination and Affirmative Action
This Handbook deals with theoretical and empirical evidence on the economics of discrimination and affirmative action across the world, assessed over...
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Insights from economic theories of discrimination: on sources, motives, consequences and policies
This paper synthesises the theories of economic discrimination as developed since they emerged first with the writing of Gary Becker in the mid-1950s...
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Taste-Based Discrimination
Becker’s (The economics of discrimination. Chicago University Press, Chicago, 1957) book introduces the concept of taste-based discrimination. This...
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Pre-market discrimination or post-market discrimination: research on inequality of opportunity for labor income in China
Inequality of opportunity (hereafter “IO”) restricts the realization of social justice, and its mechanism has always attracted attention. Using China...
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Discrimination in Credit
This chapter provides a thematic discussion of discrimination in credit. Through a selective review of the literature, I illustrate that caste,...
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Dimensions of Discrimination: Discrimination in Housing
People from religious or ethnic minorities or other historically disadvantaged groups frequently face discrimination when they seek rental housing....
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Urban/rural spatial price discrimination with online competition
We contribute to the previous offline spatial price discrimination by adding an online entrant that results in partially equalized prices, and the...
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Disentangling Customer and Employer Discrimination Using State Variation in the Tipped Minimum Wage
Employees who receive part of their compensation as tips may be subject to a type of discrimination that is not regulated or prohibited. This...
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Strategic discrimination and the emergence of systematic exclusion
This paper studies how individuals consider other individuals’ preferences when selecting whom to include in a group or network in the absence of any...
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Transforming Gendered Labor Markets to End Discrimination
This chapter sets out the foundations for a feminist understanding of labor market discrimination. It is argued that labor markets are gendered...
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Impact of Gender Discrimination Laws on Inflation: Evidence from Panel Data
In recent years, there has been a burgeoning literature exploring the effects of gender discrimination on macroeconomic outcomes ranging from...