The Political Economy of Ethnic Discrimination and Affirmative Action: A Comparative PerspectiveMichael Louis Wyzan The nine essays collected here examine ethnic relations, discrimination, and affirmative action in different regions of the world. The contributors focus throughout on the political economy of ethnic relations - an area that has until now been largely neglected in the literature. Written by economists, the papers both offer theoretical and empirical insights into standard neoclassical models of discrimination and explore in depth the historical and institutional features of the specific cases under study. Six of the papers address discrimination and affirmative action in developing countries; the remaining essays examine the problem as it has been manifested in socialist states. The aim throughout is to offer the reader an enhanced understanding of the economic and political genesis of the often catastrophic problems associated with ethnic discrimination. |
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... manufacturing , which both employ skilled and unskilled labor . In addition , agriculture uses land , and manufacturing needs capital . The two production functions are ac- cordingly where T indicates land . QA = A ( LA , LA , T , t ) ...
... manufacturing . Thus , for capital to remain fully employed , its price must fall . When the reab- sorption of capital takes place , unskilled labor will be substituted for skilled if the complementarity of capital is higher with the ...
... manufacturing , since this releases skilled workers . For reemployment to occur , their wage has to fall . What happens to the return to capital and land , on the other hand , remains indeterminate , since we do not know in general ...
Contents
A Comparison | 1 |
2 | 2 |
Human Rights Affirmative Action and Land Reform in Latin | 25 |
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