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Economics Of Discrimination
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Making Trade an Engine of Growth for All
TL;DR: The authors of as discussed by the authors pointed out that trade growth in advanced markets is experiencing low growth and in emerging markets, growth rates have fallen by almost 1 percentage point since 2013, and that these economic developments are limiting opportunities for billions of people around the world and making it harder to achieve our goal of ending extreme poverty by 2030.
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Pay discrimination against persons with disabilities: Canadian evidence from PALS
Morley Gunderson,Byron Y. Lee +1 more
TL;DR: The authors found that persons with a disability that does not affect their performance at work are still paid about 10% less than a comparison group with no disability but with the same pay-determining characteristics.
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Dynamic Decades: A micro perspective on late nineteenth century Sweden
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined various aspects of mobility during the closing decades of the nineteenth century in Sweden and provided new insights on the choices and outcomes of men, women and firms during a formative period in which the geographic, social and economic landscapes of Sweden were fundamentally transformed.
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Upward Mobility and Discrimination: The Case of Asian Americans
TL;DR: The authors found that Asians achieved extraordinary upward mobility relative to blacks and whites for every cohort born in California since 1920, and this mobility stemmed primarily from gains in earnings conditional on education, rather than unusual educational attainment.
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Socioeconomic mobility and talent utilization of workers from poorer backgrounds: the overlooked importance of within-organization dynamics
Marko Pitesa,Madan M. Pillutla +1 more
TL;DR: Socioeconomic mobility, or the ability of individuals to improve their socioeconomic standing through merit-based contributions, is a fundamental ideal of modern societies as discussed by the authors, and the key focus of societa...
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The Gender Wage Gap: Extent, Trends, and Explanations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide new empirical evidence on the extent of and trends in the gender wage gap, using PSID microdata over the 1980-2010, which shows that women's work force interruptions and shorter hours remain significant in high skilled occupations, possibly due to compensating differentials.
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Algorithmic Decision Making and the Cost of Fairness
TL;DR: This work reformulate algorithmic fairness as constrained optimization: the objective is to maximize public safety while satisfying formal fairness constraints designed to reduce racial disparities, and also to human decision makers carrying out structured decision rules.
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The Measure and Mismeasure of Fairness: A Critical Review of Fair Machine Learning.
Sam Corbett-Davies,Sharad Goel +1 more
TL;DR: It is argued that it is often preferable to treat similarly risky people similarly, based on the most statistically accurate estimates of risk that one can produce, rather than requiring that algorithms satisfy popular mathematical formalizations of fairness.
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Racial Discrimination in the Sharing Economy: Evidence from a Field Experiment
TL;DR: This paper found that applicants with distinctively African-American names are 16% less likely to be accepted relative to identical hosts with White names on the same platform. But, their results suggest that only a subset of hosts discriminate.
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Algorithmic Bias? An Empirical Study of Apparent Gender-Based Discrimination in the Display of STEM Career Ads
Anja Lambrecht,Catherine Tucker +1 more
TL;DR: The authors explored data from a field test of how an algorithm delivered ads promoting job opportunities in the science, technology, engineering, and math fields, which was explicitly intended to be gender neutral.