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How many correspondence tests are enough to detect discrimination among single agents? : a longitudinal study on the Belgian real estate market

Verhaeghe, Pieter-Paul; Van der Bracht, Koen - 2020

Correspondence tests have been used by scholars and civil rights organizations to measure ethnic discrimination. In … contrast to research testing covering a whole market through many discrimination tests, litigation testing typically targets a … methodological challenges to disentangle systematic discrimination from random treatment. This study examines from a purely …

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Female-specific labor regulation and employment : historical evidence from the United States

Haddad, Joanne; Kattan, Lamis - 2024

By the end of the nineteenth century, labor legislation for women had become a prominent issue in the United States, with most states enacting at least one female-specific work regulation. We examine the impact of three previously unexplored legislation: seating, health and safety, and...

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The effects of political reservations on credit access and borrowing composition : new evidence from India

Ao, Chon-Kit; Chatterjee, Somdeep - 2018

We estimate the impacts of mandated political reservation for minorities on household credit access and borrowing behavior. To identify causal effects, we exploit the exogenous state-time variation in the allocation of constituencies (electoral districts) to the two reserved minority groups in...

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Re-exhuming the old hatchet : the effects of affirmative action policies on political preferences in post-apartheid South Africa

Belmonte, Alessandro; Ticchi, Davide; Ubaldi, Michele - 2025

This paper studies whether affirmative action policies towards the outsider group may foster a backlash by the insider one. We exploit the unique historical context provided by the legacy of apartheid in democratic South Africa. We found that the completion of the affirmative action legislation...

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The Labour Force Status of Transgender People and The Impact of Removing Surgical Requirements to Change Gender on ID Documents

Mann, Samuel - 2020

This paper uses data from the BRFSS over the period 2014-2019 to analyse the impact of removing surgical requirements to change legal gender. In many states transgender people are forced to undergo surgical procedures if they wish to change their gender on ID documents, which can be invasive,...

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Beyond the stigma of war : Russian migrants in Kazakhstan's labour market

Abdulla, Kanat; Mourelatos, Evangelos - 2024

In this study, we investigate the employers' attitude towards Russian migrants in Kazakhstan's labor market. We conduct a field experiment by sending over 1600 fictitious job applications to real job openings posted on one of the largest job search portals in the country. The job applicants...

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The urgent need for an economics of "hategoatism"

Payson, Steven - 2019

The word "scapegoat" is defined as "a person made to bear the blame for others," and similarly, "scapegoatism" refers to "the act or practice of assigning blame or failure to another, as to deflect attention or responsibility away from oneself" (Collins English Dictionary and Dictionary.com,...

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Moving policies toward racial and ethnic equality : the case of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program

Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso; Jales, Hugo B.; Liu, Judith; … - 2023

We analyze the role played by the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in alleviating or exacerbating inequality across racial and ethnic groups in food expenditures and in the resources needed to meet basic food needs (the "food resource gap"). To do this, we propose a simple...

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Affirmative action and intersectionality at the top : evidence from South Africa

Klasen, Stephan; Minasyan, Anna - 2020

Gender-based board quotas do not always lead to higher share of women in top management positions. We study the consequences of an affirmative action policy that stipulates gender- and race-based targets in top management positions, beyond boards. We focus on the representation of intersectional...

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Motherhood and leadership : exploring employee perceptions of female leaders in the workplace

Magnanelli, Barbara Sveva; Nasta, Luigi; Scicchitano, Sergio - 2024

can inform policies aimed at reducing gender-based discrimination and improving organizational diversity and leadership …

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