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University of Massachusetts Amherst

2018

Discrimination

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Complicating Gender: Gender Inequality In Education And Employment, Skylar Davidson Oct 2018

Complicating Gender: Gender Inequality In Education And Employment, Skylar Davidson

Doctoral Dissertations

Sociologists have always acknowledged the complexity of gender, but despite acknowledging this complexity, much sociological research does not put this knowledge into practice; indeed, a great deal of research focuses on distinctions between men and women with regard to some other variable, reinforcing a narrow and binary understanding of gender. This tendency has two limitations: (1) it does not recognize the variability in men's and women's expression of masculinity and femininity; and (2) it does not recognize gender identities other than those of cisgender man and cisgender woman (i.e., transgender people). This study mitigates this limitation through telling a story …

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By The Content Of Their Character? Discrimination, Social Identity, And Observed Distributions Of Income, Paulo L. Dos Santos, Noé Wiener Oct 2018

By The Content Of Their Character? Discrimination, Social Identity, And Observed Distributions Of Income, Paulo L. Dos Santos, Noé Wiener

PERI Working Papers

This paper develops a series of information-theoretic measures to consider the systemic effects on individual incomes of complex patterns of social and economic discrimination by race, ethnicity, and gender, in the U.S. It derives coefficients of joint, conditional or incremental, and mutual information that offer non-parametric characterizations of the relative influence of economic and social-identity characteristics in the determination of individual income for different groups. It reports on estimates of those coefficients obtained using large-scale cross- sectional data from that economy. Those estimates support two sets of conclusions. First, the informational significance of social identity in the determination of incomes …

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