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Affirmative action policy in developing countries: Lessons learned and a way forward

Kaletski, Elizabeth; Prakash, Nishith - 2016

in India. The Indian constitution mandates seats be reserved at various levels of government for political representation …

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The Urgent Need for an Economics of “Hategoatism”

Payson, Steven - 2019

oneself” (Collins English Dictionary and Dictionary.com, respectively.) While these definitions do not mention economics … dehumanization. Only one subfield of economics regularly embraces hategoatism, which is Libertarianism (where the “HATEGOAT” is … government workers). Economists must lead by example by combating hategoatism, and that requires cleaning their own house first. …

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The neoclassicals' conundrum: If Adam Smith is the father of economics, it is a bastard child

Valdes Viera, Oscar - 2017

Neoclassical economists of the current era frequently pay lip service to Adam Smith's theories to certify the validity …, and the field of study he afforded to political economy. Instead, early neoclassical economists parted ways with the …

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Double jeopardy? Caste, affirmative action, and stigma

Deshpande, Ashwini - 2016

This paper presents the results of an attitude survey administered to university students in India that attempts to …

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Within-group inequality and caste-based crimes in India

Bhowmick, Kanishka; Dasgupta, Indraneel; Pal, Sarmistha - 2024

groups. Applying this model to caste conflict in India, we find that greater inequality among non-Scheduled Caste (non …

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Within-Group Inequality and Caste-Based Crimes in India

Bhowmick, Kanishka; Dasgupta, Indraneel; Pal, Sarmistha - 2024

groups. Applying this model to caste conflict in India, we find that greater inequality among non-Scheduled Caste (non …

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Economic Growth in the Potterian Economy

Snir, Avichai; Levy, Daniel - In: The Law and Harry Potter, (pp. 211-236). 2010

We study the economic structure of the life of Harry Potter and his co-actors as an economic model that governs the social organization of their economic activities. Our goal is to study and understand the internal consistency of the Potterian economic model and explore the relationships between...

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Macroeconomic cost of excluding persons with disabilities from the workforce in Spain

Cámara, Angeles; Martínez Martín, María Isabel; … - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 10 (2020) 1, pp. 1-21

The article analyzes and deals with the problems associated to exclusion of persons with disabilities from the workforce based on the impact it has in the context of economic and social dimensions, considering the fact that it results in high cost because of such exclusion. Specifically, it...

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The civil rights act and the earnings of lower income Hispanic men in the 1960's

Duleep, Harriet; Regets, Mark - 2012

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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The economic status of Asian Americans before and after the Civil Rights Act

Duleep, Harriet; Sanders, Seth G. - 2012

In contrast to their relative standing in today's labor market, in 1960 U.S.-born men in all Asian groups earned substantially less than comparable whites. We explore explanations for the wage gap and find that all of the variables that might plausibly account for it, such as Asian/white...

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