Discrimination and Poverty
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David Pedulla
Leaders: Shelley Correll, David Pedulla, Cecilia Ridgeway
The Poverty and Discrimination RG is charged with developing a regularized protocol for measuring the amount and extent of discrimination in labor and housing markets. It is increasingly clear that labor market discrimination, far from withering away, remains very prominent for many statuses and in many types of markets. However, because this research tradition is based on “one-off” audit studies and laboratory experiments, it is not possible to compare across studies and assess which types of discrimination are the most important or the most resistant to change. There is accordingly a need to build a standardized protocol for monitoring trends in discrimination across the various types of discrimination in play (e.g., poverty status, employment status, homelessness, economic background, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, incarceration status, citizenship, religion, disability). The twofold objective of this protocol is to make it possible to assess which types of discrimination are especially prominent and which types are growing weaker or stronger over time.
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Discrimination - CPI Research
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| Normative Discrimination and the Motherhood Penalty | Shelley J. Correll , Stephen Benard |
Normative Discrimination and the Motherhood PenaltyAuthor: Shelley J. Correll , Stephen BenardPublisher: Sage Publications Date: 10/2010 This research proposes and tests a new theoretical mechanism to account for a portion of the motherhood penalty in wages and related labor market outcomes. At least a portion of this penalty is attributable to discrimination based on the assumption that mothers are less competent and committed than other types of workers. But what happens when mothers definitively prove their competence and commitment? In this study, we examine whether mothers face discrimination in labor-market-type evaluations even when they provide indisputable evidence that they are competent and committed to paid work. We test the hypothesis that evaluators discriminate against highly successful mothers by viewing them as less warm, less likable, and more interpersonally hostile than otherwise similar workers who are not mothers. The results support this “normative discrimination” hypothesis for female but not male evaluators. The findings have important implications for understanding the nature and persistence of discrimination toward mothers.
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| Worlds in Motion: Understanding International Migration at the End of the Millennium | Massey Douglas S. |
Worlds in Motion: Understanding International Migration at the End of the MillenniumAuthor: Massey Douglas S.Publisher: Oxford University Press Date: 01/1999 |
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| Is Bigger Better? Explaining the Relationship between Organization Size and Job Rewards | Arne L. Kalleberg and Mark E. Van Buren |
Is Bigger Better? Explaining the Relationship between Organization Size and Job RewardsAuthor: Arne L. Kalleberg and Mark E. Van BurenPublisher: American Sociological Review Date: |
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| The Structure of Opportunity: How Promotion Ladders vary within and Among Organizations | Baron, James N., Allison Davis-Blake, and William... |
The Structure of Opportunity: How Promotion Ladders vary within and Among OrganizationsAuthor: Baron, James N., Allison Davis-Blake, and William...Publisher: Administrative Science Quarterly Date: |
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| Policing the Ghetto Underclass: The Politics of Law and Law Enforcement | William J. Chambliss |
Policing the Ghetto Underclass: The Politics of Law and Law EnforcementAuthor: William J. ChamblissPublisher: Date: |
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discrimination - CPI Affiliates
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Richard Thompson Ford |
George E. Osborne Professor of Law |
Stanford University |
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Anne Morrison Piehl |
Professor of Economics; Research Associate, National Bureau of Economics Research; Research Fellow, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) |
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey |
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Sandra E. Black |
Professor of Economics |
The University of Texas at Austin |
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Benoit Monin |
The Bowen H. and Janice Arthur McCoy Professor of Ethics, Psychology, and Leadership; Professor of Organizational Behavior; Professor of Psychology |
Stanford University |
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Steven N. Durlauf |
Steans Professor of Educational Policy |
University of Chicago |
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Discrimination - Other Research
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| Overwork and the Slow Convergence in the Gender Gap in Wages | Youngjoo Cha, Kim A. Weeden |
Overwork and the Slow Convergence in the Gender Gap in WagesAuthor: Youngjoo Cha, Kim A. WeedenPublisher: American Sociological Review Date: 04/2014 Despite rapid changes in women’s educational attainment and continuous labor force experience, convergence in the gender gap in wages slowed in the 1990s and stalled in the 2000s. Using CPS data from 1979 to 2009, we show that convergence in the gender gap in hourly pay over these three decades was attenuated by the increasing prevalence of “overwork” (defined as working 50 or more hours per week) and the rising hourly wage returns to overwork. Because a greater proportion of men engage in overwork, these changes raised men’s wages relative to women’s and exacerbated the gender wage gap by an estimated 10 percent of the total wage gap. This overwork effect was sufficiently large to offset the wage-equalizing effects of the narrowing gender gap in educational attainment and other forms of human capital. The overwork effect on trends in the gender gap in wages was most pronounced in professional and managerial occupations, where long work hours are especially common and the norm of overwork is deeply embedded in organizational practices and occupational cultures. These results illustrate how new ways of organizing work can perpetuate old forms of gender inequality. |
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| From motherhood penalties to husband premia: The new challenge for gender equality and family policy, lessons from Norway | Trond Petersen, Andrew M. Penner, Geir Høgsnes |
From motherhood penalties to husband premia: The new challenge for gender equality and family policy, lessons from NorwayAuthor: Trond Petersen, Andrew M. Penner, Geir HøgsnesPublisher: American Journal of Sociology Date: 03/2014 Given the key role that processes occurring in the family play in creating gender inequality, the family is a central focus of policies aimed at creating greater gender equality. We examine how family status affects the gender wage gap using longitudinal matched employer-employee data from Norway, 1979–96, a period with extensive expansion of family policies. The motherhood penalty dropped dramatically from 1979 to 1996. Among men the premia for marriage and fatherhood remained constant. In 1979, the gender wage gap was primarily due to the motherhood penalty, but by 1996 husband premia were more important than motherhood penalties. |
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| Vulnerable Populations and Transformative Law Teaching | Society of American Law Teachers, Golden Gate... |
Vulnerable Populations and Transformative Law TeachingAuthor: Society of American Law Teachers, Golden Gate...Publisher: Carolina Academic Press Date: 03/2011 The essays included in this volume began as presentations at the March 19–20, 2010 “Vulnerable Populations and Economic Realities” teaching conference organized and hosted by Golden Gate University School of Law and co-sponsored by the Society of American Law Teachers (SALT). That conference, generously funded by a grant from The Elfenworks Foundation, brought together law faculty, practitioners, and students to reexamine how issues of race, gender, sexual identity, nationality, disability, and generally—outsider status—are linked to poverty. Contributors have transformed their presentations into essays, offering a variety of roadmaps for incorporating these issues into the law school curriculum, both inside the classroom as well as in clinical and externship settings, study abroad, and social activism. These essays provide glimpses into “teaching moments,” both intentional and organic, to help trigger opportunities for students and faculty to question their own perceptions and experiences about who creates and interprets law, and who has access to power and the force of law. This book expands the parameters of law teaching so that this next generation of attorneys will be dedicated to their roles as public citizens, broadening the availability of justice. Contributors include: John Payton; Richard Delgado; Steven W. Bender; Sarah Valentine; Deborah Post and Deborah Zalesne; Gilbert Paul Carrasco; Michael L. Perlin and Deborah Dorfman; Robin R. Runge; Cynthia D. Bond; Florence Wagman Roisman; Doug Simpson; Anne Marie Harkins and Robin Clark; Douglas Colbert; Raquel Aldana and Leticia Saucedo, Marci Seville; Deirdre Bowen, Daniel Bonilla Maldonado, Kathleen Neal Cleaver, Colin Crawford, and James Forman, Jr.; Susan Rutberg; Mary B. Culbert and Sara Campos; MaryBeth Musumeci, Elizabeth Weeks Leonard, and Brutrinia D. Arellano; Libby Adler; and Paulette J. Williams. The editorial board includes Raquel Aldana, Steven Bender, Olympia Duhart, Michele Benedetto Neitz, Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Hari Osofsky, and Hazel Weiser. |
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| Illegal Migration from Mexico to the United States | Gordon H. Hanson |
Illegal Migration from Mexico to the United StatesAuthor: Gordon H. HansonPublisher: Date: 04/2006 |
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| Housing Discrimination in Metropolitan America: Explaining Changes between 1989 and 2000 | Stephen L. Ross and Margery Austin Turner |
Housing Discrimination in Metropolitan America: Explaining Changes between 1989 and 2000Author: Stephen L. Ross and Margery Austin TurnerPublisher: Date: 05/2005 |
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