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Javier Núñez et al., « Class discrimination and meritocracy in the labor market: evidence from Chile », Estudios de Economía, ID : 10670/1.ji3l75
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"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."