... gender inequalities in employment access and compensation in Senegal, assessing whether these differences arise from discrimination or disparities in productive skills. Design/methodology/approach This study investigates inequalities in labor market access and pay between men and women using...

... whether these differences constitute discrimination for policy attention. Design/methodology/approach The study adopts both quantitative and qualitative methodological approaches to assess the extent of gender inequality in employment and earnings in the Ghanaian extractive sector and the sources...

... The neoclassical discrimination theory assumes the existence of three discrimination sources: employer, co-workers and consumer (Becker, 1957). Within a perfect competition market, individuals act on their preferences in order to maximize their utility. The employer who has discriminatory preferences will reduce...

...Luigi Bonaventura; Alessio Emanuele Biondo Purpose Discrimination and hostility in the workplace prevents homosexual workers from performing their core functions on the job. Moreover, it introduces unnecessary costs by increasing absenteeism, lowering productivity, and fostering a less motivated...

... incomes of the children of immigrants might be attributable to discrimination, while higher relative incomes could be attributable to ambitious parents who produce more ambitious children. These potential effects have been difficult to disentangle. The purpose of this paper is to control...

... in discrimination of parents against female siblings in different communities in eastern India. Design/methodology/approach Using economic analysis, this paper outlines and illustrates the basis of the economics of parental discrimination against female children and structured questionnaires are used to collect...

..., but rather to the selection of high earners into marriage. The returns to marriage are biased upward by “sample selection bias”. © MCB UP Limited 2001 Discrimination Black people Labour market Inequality Income Many writers have been hesitant to draw this conclusion. The family...

... significantly by silently rendering them non‐competing, all the while denying any discrimination. © MCB UP Limited 2001 Marketing Discrimination Groups Hierarchy In what follows, I advance a framework for understanding the mechanisms that maintain unearned or inherited advantage or privilege...

...Edward J. O’Boyle There are two grounds in the USA for bringing a claim of race or gender discrimination: discriminatory intent; and discriminatory effect. As to age discrimination, however, a plaintiff is allowed to bring a claim only on grounds of discriminatory intent. Argues that, with regard...

...Petur O. Jonsson Starts out with a survey of various formal theories that have focused on discrimination in the labor market. Argues that Becker’s traditional taste for discrimination model, the various statistical discrimination models and the new cultural communication cost models ultimately...

... leads to increases in incomes. Discrimination against such access for the less developed countries is one of the great disparities of the twenty‐first century. First, the telecommunications sector itself may grow rapidly and countries with a strong telecommunications sector will have at least one...

...Gary A. Dymski Makes three contributions to the ongoing debate over whether racial discrimination is disappearing, and white privilege eroding. First, develops an argument concerning why many economists treat empirical evidence of racial discrimination with skepticism or indifference. Second...

...Kishor Thanawala Economic as well as ethical aspects of discrimination and other forms of injustice in the context of a nation’s economy have been discussed by scholars for many decades. However, until relatively recent times, much attention has not been given – especially by economists...

... in sociodemographic characteristics and the rest is explained, in part, by discrimination. We examine the five most prevalent chronic health conditions among the elderly in the NLTCS database. These include: 1. (1) joint diseases (rheumatism, paralysis and arthritis); 2. (2) diabetes; 3. (3) heart...

...Marilyn Waring Edited by Lin   Lean Lim . The Sex Sector – The Economic and Social Bases of Prostitution in Southeast Asia . International Labour Organisation , 1998 . , ISBN: ISBN: 92‐2‐109522‐3 © MCB UP Limited 2000 --> Employment Discrimination Children...

...Autar S. Dhesi There is sufficient empirical evidence to suggest that discrimination, defined as absence of equal opportunities, exists before the market as well as in the market against certain social categories in India. Inequality in access to sources of human capital acquisition reinforces...

... 1992 Discrimination Race relations Social economics International Journal of Social Economics 19,7/8/9 292 Towards a New Model of Exploitation: The Case of Racial Domination Gary A. Dymski University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA International Journal of Soda! Economics, Vol. 19...

... Prisons Discrimination USA Empirical studies Black people Determinants of the Prison Population: An Empirical Analysis by Samuel Cameron Department of Economics, Staffordshire Polytechnic, Stoke-on-Trent, UK Economists have devoted considerable effort to showing how the criminal justice system...