-household specialization as couples make joint decisions on how much time to spend on home production and how much time on labour market work …. Couples' specialization decisions hence affect their human capital accumulation in the labour market and the realization of … for married couples. Households' market intensity and specialization arrangements are not affected when matching is …

policy widens credit market discrimination, i.e., female-owned and -managed firms receive less funds during a tight monetary … market discrimination. We find that credit market discrimination during the contractionary period is relatively lower (higher …

Typically, workplace discrimination is approached from the perspective of a particular dimension (e.g., race or gender …). This offers insight but also obscures important communality among different types of discrimination. We propose a construct … of generalized workplace discrimination that clarifies the overlap among different types of discriminatory experiences …

This chapter surveys the theoretical literature on statistical discrimination and affirmative action. This literature …

We propose a competitive general equilibrium theory of gender discrimination in labor market where male and female … discrimination. Pioneering works of Becker (1957) and Arrow (1973), in terms of partial equilibrium models, have argued that the … forces of competition would restrict subjective discrimination which leads to increasing cost for a firm and reduce the …

Are ethnic specialization and thus a downward sloping labor demand curve fundamental features of labor market … implications for ethnic specialization. Specifically, fundamental relationships through which relative group sizes determine … whether ethnic specialization arises and in what degree are established. Thus, this paper theoretically justifies a downward …