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dc.contributor.authorAmegashie, J. Atsuen
dc.date.accessioned2008-06-12-
dc.date.accessioned2009-07-28T08:30:37Z-
dc.date.available2009-07-28T08:30:37Z-
dc.date.issued2008-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/26337-
dc.description.abstractHistory is replete with overt discrimination on the basis of race, gender, age, citizenship, ethnicity, marital status, academic performance, health status, volume of market transactions, religion, sexual orientation, etc. However, these forms of discrimination are not equally tolerable. For example, discrimination based on immutable or prohibitively unalterable characteristics such as race, gender, or ethnicity is much less acceptable. Why? I develop a simple rent-seeking model of conflict which is driven by either racial (gender or ethnic) discrimination or generational discrimination (i.e., young versus old). When the conflicts are mutually exclusive, I find that racial discrimination is socially intolerable for a much wider range of parameter values relative to generational discrimination. When they are not mutually exclusive, I find that racial discrimination can be socially intolerable while generational discrimination is socially tolerable. The converse is not true. My results are not driven by a stronger intrinsic aversion to discrimination on the basis of immutable characteristics. I am able to explain why some forms of discrimination (e.g., racism) are much less tolerable than other forms of discrimination (e.g., age discrimination) without making any value judgements about either form of discrimination.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aCenter for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo) |cMunichen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aCESifo Working Paper |x2292en
dc.subject.jelD72en
dc.subject.jelD74en
dc.subject.jelK41en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordconflicten
dc.subject.keywordcontesten
dc.subject.keyworddiscriminationen
dc.subject.keywordraceen
dc.subject.keywordgenerationen
dc.subject.keywordrent-seekingen
dc.subject.stwDiskriminierungen
dc.subject.stwGeschlechterdiskriminierungen
dc.subject.stwEthnische Diskriminierungen
dc.subject.stwReligionen
dc.subject.stwGenerationenbeziehungenen
dc.subject.stwRent Seekingen
dc.subject.stwMessungen
dc.subject.stwTheorieen
dc.titleSocially-tolerable discrimination-
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn568422112en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

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