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Titolo |
Discrimination in Latin America [[electronic resource] ] : an economic perspective / / edited by Hugo Ñopo, Alberto Chong, Andrea Moro |
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Washington, DC, : Inter-American Development Bank, : World Bank, c2010 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-45078-6 |
9786612450785 |
0-8213-8082-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (340 p.) |
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Collana |
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Latin American development forum series |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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ÑopoHugo |
ChongAlberto |
MoroAndrea <1967-> |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Minorities - Latin America - Economic conditions |
Minorities - Latin America - Social conditions |
Discrimination - Economic aspects - Latin America |
Sex discrimination against women - Economic aspects - Latin America |
Race discrimination - Economic aspects - Latin America |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1 What Do We Know about Discrimination in Latin America? Very Little!; 2 Ethnic and Social Barriers to Cooperation: Experiments Studying the Extent and Nature of Discrimination in Urban Peru; Figures; Tables; 3 Discrimination in the Provision of Social Services to the Poor: A Field Experimental Study; 4 Discrimination and Social Networks: Popularity among High School Students in Argentina; 5 An Experimental Study of Labor Market Discrimination: Gender, Social Class, and Neighborhood in Chile |
6 Ability, Schooling Choices, and Gender Labor Market Discrimination: Evidence for Chile7 What Emigration Leaves Behind: The Situation of Emigrants and Their Families in Ecuador; 8 Gender Differentials in Judicial Proceedings: Evidence from Housing-Related Cases in Uruguay; |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Latin America has often been regarded as a region with deep ethnic and class conflicts. The difficulty of assessing this from an economic perspective is two fold: There is little solid, unbiased, and systematic data to provide convincing empirical evidence, and there is a dearth of empirical methods to identify specific discriminatory-based behavior as opposed to related behavior that might only appear to be discriminatory.This book uses a variety of methodological tools -- regression analysis, market tests, field experiments, audit studies, and structural methods -- to explore the extent to w |
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