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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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Pubblicazione: | Washington, DC, : Inter-American Development Bank, : World Bank, c2010 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (340 p.) |
Disciplina: | 305.80098 |
Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Altri autori: |
ÑopoHugo
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Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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; Index | |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | Discrimination in Latin America ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-282-45078-6 |
9786612450785 | |
0-8213-8082-6 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910458190803321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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