Working Paper

• Discrimination in employment
• Economic assistance and foreign aid
• Economic development

Journal Article

Whether policy support should be designed differently for women entrepreneurs is a particularly relevant question. To answer this, and to inform the design of policies to provide appropriate support for women entrepreneurs, the article compares male...

• Discrimination in employment
• Entrepreneurship
• Women

Working Paper

• Discrimination in employment
• Equality and inequality
• Human rights

Working Paper

• Discrimination in employment
• Economic policy
• Structural adjustment (Economic policy)

Journal Article

This paper provides new insights on the labour market discrimination faced by indigenous Australians one of the most disadvantaged indigenous populations in developed countries. Combining two large, nationally representative datasets, we decompose...

• Discrimination in employment
• Employees
• Ethnic relations

Working Paper

Racial wage inequality and discrimination have pervaded South African society for centuries. Apartheid legislation cemented these disparities by institutionalizing white job reservation and many other unfair practices. While racial wage gaps started...

• Discrimination in employment
• Equality and inequality
• Labour

Working Paper

The study suggests that gender inequality acts as a significant constraint to growth in sub-Saharan Africa, and that removing gender-based barriers to growth will make a substantial contribution to realizing Africa’s economic potential. In particular...

• Discrimination in employment
• Economic development
• Education

Journal Article

We implement a lab-in-the-field experiment among childcare workers in Chandigarh, India, to evaluate discriminatory attitudes of the Hindu workers toward Muslim children. We use a third-party allocation game that controls for selfish payoff...

• Discrimination in employment
• Field experiments
• Health

Working Paper

This paper discusses the rationale as well as the challenges involved when constructing gender-related indicators of well-being. It argues that such indicators are critically important but that their construction involves a number of conceptual and...

• Discrimination in employment
• Households
• Income distribution

Working Paper

People with disabilities in Ghana and other developing economies are discriminated against in many fundamental elements of human empowerment such as education and employment. While some employers are unwilling to hire, the educational systems do not...

• Discrimination in employment
• Education
• Employee rights

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Developing Countries in the WTO Regime

• Discrimination in employment
• Free trade
• International trade

Book Chapter

Part of Book Urbanization and Development in Asia

• Discrimination in employment
• Emigration and immigration
• Regional economics

Book Chapter

Part of Book The Role of Elites in Economic Development

• Discrimination in employment
• Economic development
• Higher education

Working Paper

This paper examines the effect of foreign trade induced product market competition, upon workplace gender discrimination in urban Mexico as measured by the gender earnings differential. More than four decades ago, Becker argued that labour market...

• Discrimination in employment
• Free trade
• International trade

Working Paper

This paper describes the very different role played by female elites in contemporary developing countries, as compared to the 'early' industrializing countries of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. It shows that women are far more important...

• Discrimination in employment
• Economic development
• Higher education

Working Paper

Some claim that certain forms of social protection, conditional cash transfers in particular, result in perverse incentives for recipients in order to stay eligible for receiving benefits. This notion has a bearing on the design of social protection...

• Discrimination in employment
• Segregation
• Transfer payments