Class discrimination and meritocracy in the labor market: evidence from Chile
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| contents | Class discrimination and meritocracy in the labor market: evidence from Chile Javier Núñez Roberto Gutiérrez Economía y Finanzas Chile Class Meritocracy Latin America Discrimination This paper studies class discrimination and meritocracy in the Chilean labormarket. Employing a dataset rich in productivity and class measures, we findthat upper-class professionals earn approximately 50 per cent more than thoseraised in lower socioeconomic backgrounds. This gap is unrelated to differencesin academic performance at university, second language proficiency, postgraduatestudies, schools academic quality, geographic origin and other standardcontrols, which suggests some employer discrimination. This gap is largerthan gaps reported elsewhere for gender, race and physical appearance.Meritocracy is modest, as the effect of socioeconomic background on earningsoutweighs that of academic performance at university. 2004 artículo científico 0304-2758 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=22131201 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=221 Estudios de Economía application/pdf Universidad de Chile Estudios de Economía (Chile) Num.2 Vol.31 |
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| spellingShingle | Class discrimination and meritocracy in the labor market: evidence from Chile Javier Núñez Economía y Finanzas Chile Class Meritocracy Latin America Discrimination Class discrimination and meritocracy in the labor market: evidence from Chile Javier Núñez Roberto Gutiérrez Economía y Finanzas Chile Class Meritocracy Latin America Discrimination This paper studies class discrimination and meritocracy in the Chilean labormarket. Employing a dataset rich in productivity and class measures, we findthat upper-class professionals earn approximately 50 per cent more than thoseraised in lower socioeconomic backgrounds. This gap is unrelated to differencesin academic performance at university, second language proficiency, postgraduatestudies, schools academic quality, geographic origin and other standardcontrols, which suggests some employer discrimination. This gap is largerthan gaps reported elsewhere for gender, race and physical appearance.Meritocracy is modest, as the effect of socioeconomic background on earningsoutweighs that of academic performance at university. 2004 artículo científico 0304-2758 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=22131201 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=221 Estudios de Economía application/pdf Universidad de Chile Estudios de Economía (Chile) Num.2 Vol.31 |
| title | Class discrimination and meritocracy in the labor market: evidence from Chile |
| topic | Economía y Finanzas Chile Class Meritocracy Latin America Discrimination |
| url | https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=22131201 |