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Race and income distribution: Evidence from the US, Brazil and South Africa

Gradín, Carlos - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2010

The aim of this paper is to provide some empirical evidence about black-white differentials in the distribution of income and wellbeing in three different countries: Brazil, US and South Africa. In all cases, people of African descent are in a variety of ways socially disadvantaged compared with...

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Segregation of women into low-paying occupations in the United States

Gradín, Carlos - In: Applied economics 52 (2020) 17, pp. 1905-1920

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Segregation of women into low-paying occupations in the United States

Gradín, Carlos - 2017

We extend the conventional framework for measuring segregation to consider stratification of occupations by gender, i … US has been accompanied by a deeper, longer reduction in gender stratification. We further investigate the role of … workers' characteristics, showing that gender differences cannot explain the levels of segregation/stratification in any year …

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Conditional occupational segregation of minorities in the U.S.

Gradín, Carlos - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2010

In this paper, we use a propensity score-based methodology to analyze the role of demographic and human capital characteristics of minorities in the U.S. in explaining their high occupational segregation with respect to whites. Thus, we measure conditional segregation based on an estimated...

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Occupational segregation by race and ethnicity in the US: Differences across states

Gradín, Carlos; Río, Coral del; Alonso-Villar, Olga - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011

Using the 2005–2007 American Community Survey, we analyze the occupational segregation of workers by race and ethnicity across states. Although the unconditional analysis shows great geographical variation in segregation, with the largest levels in the Southwest, the analysis of segregation...

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Occupational Segregation by Race and Ethnicity in the US: Differences across States

Gradín, Carlos; del Río, Coral; Alonso-Villar, Olga - Departamento de Economía Aplicada, Facultade de … - 2011

Using the 2005–2007 American Community Survey, this paper analyzes the extent of geographical disparities in occupational segregation by race and ethnicity across the United States. Although the unconditional analysis shows great geographical variation in segregation, with the largest levels...

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Occupational segregation by race and ethnicity in the US : differences across states

Gradín, Carlos; Río Otero, Coral del; Alonso Villar, Olga - 2011

Using the 2005-2007 American Community Survey, we analyze the occupational segregation of workers by race and ethnicity across states. Although the unconditional analysis shows great geographical variation in segregation, with the largest levels in the Southwest, the analysis of segregation...

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The Ethics of the U.S. Antidumping Laws and Policies

McGee, Robert W. - 2016

This paper examines the question of whether it is ethical for company officials to use the force of government to reduce or eliminate foreign competition, using the antidumping laws as a case study. This paper begins with a brief examination of the U.S. antidumping laws, then examines several...

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Protectionism of the United States Toward Japan and Korea

McGee, Robert W. - 2016

This article examines protectionism from a number of perspectives. Part One provides some general background information describing present Japanese-American trade policy. Part Two does the same for Korean-American trade policy. Part Three offers some concluding observations

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The Moral Case for Free Trade

McGee, Robert W. - 2016

The vast majority of the books and articles that have been written over the past few centuries about trade policy in general and protectionism in particular have been written from a utilitarian perspective. Indeed, it would only be a slight overstatement to say that the only works written about...

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