Discrimination in Urban Employment

Palmer, Edward

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“…Accordingly, statistical studies represented the bulk of the discrimination analyses published in leading sociology journals. These studies regarded discrimination as a residual phenomenon: it was the remaining inequality after individual differences in education and ability had been accounted for statistically (Palmer 1947;Turner 1952, 247). The overall challenge was then to isolate the individual sources of differences.…”

Section: Discrimination Before Beckermentioning

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“…The overall challenge was then to isolate the individual sources of differences. Otto Pollack (1944) and Edward Palmer (1947) tried to build different individual competitiveness indicators, based on age, sex, occupational position, and health, while the Chicago PhD Ralph Turner (1952) measured the "foci of discrimination," namely, the various steps where discrimination occurred.…”

Section: Discrimination Before Beckermentioning

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Wandering Through the Borderlands of the Social Sciences: Gary Becker’sEconomics of Discrimination

Fleury¹

2012

History of Political Economy

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The Economics of Discrimination (1957) was Gary Becker's first published work using microeconomic tools to investigate supposedly noneconomic phenomena. 1 Although the significance of the book is now widely acknowledged, there are still confusions and misconceptions regarding the nature of Becker's contribution to the social scientific literature on race relations in the 1950s and its reception and impact in the 1960s. For instance, the role of the book in the history of the relationship between economics and the other social sciences is unclear. Most accounts acknowledge that before Becker's essay, discrimination was understood to be outside the boundaries of economics (see, for instance, Chiswick 1995 and

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Section: Discrimination Before Beckermentioning

confidence: 99%