By the content of their character? Discrimination, social identity, and observed distributions of income

IF 1.3 4区社会学 Q3 MATHEMATICS, INTERDISCIPLINARY APPLICATIONS

Journal of Mathematical Sociology Pub Date : 2020-01-02 DOI:10.1080/0022250X.2019.1630832

Paulo L. dos Santos, N. Wiener

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Abstract

ABSTRACT This paper applies information-theoretic measures to consider the systemic effects on individual incomes of complex patterns of social and economic discrimination by race, ethnicity, and gender in the U.S. It estimates non-parametric indices of joint, conditional or incremental, and mutual information between income, social identity, and observable economic characteristics obtained using large-scale cross-sectional data from that economy. The paper advances new conceptual and empirical approaches to the nature and measurement of economic discrimination and inequalities of opportunity, founded on the formal informativeness of measures of social identity on economic outcomes. Estimated values for indices of informational association also cast new light on the effects of the intersections of gender and race/ethnicity on income, perverse patterns in the effects of education across different groups, and a few notable dynamic changes in patterns of income distribution in that economy over the past 40 years.

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通过他们性格的内容?歧视、社会认同和观察到的收入分配

本文运用信息论的方法来考虑美国种族、民族和性别的复杂社会和经济歧视模式对个人收入的系统性影响。它估计了收入、社会身份和可观察的经济特征之间的联合、条件或增量和相互信息的非参数指数。本文提出了新的概念和实证方法，以经济歧视和机会不平等的性质和测量为基础，建立在社会认同对经济结果测量的正式信息性上。信息关联指数的估计值还揭示了性别和种族/族裔交叉对收入的影响，不同群体之间教育影响的反常模式，以及过去40年来该经济体中收入分配模式的一些显著动态变化。

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Journal of Mathematical Sociology 数学-数学跨学科应用

CiteScore

2.90

自引率

10.00%

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审稿时长

>12 weeks

期刊介绍： The goal of the Journal of Mathematical Sociology is to publish models and mathematical techniques that would likely be useful to professional sociologists. The Journal also welcomes papers of mutual interest to social scientists and other social and behavioral scientists, as well as papers by non-social scientists that may encourage fruitful connections between sociology and other disciplines. Reviews of new or developing areas of mathematics and mathematical modeling that may have significant applications in sociology will also be considered. The Journal of Mathematical Sociology is published in association with the International Network for Social Network Analysis, the Japanese Association for Mathematical Sociology, the Mathematical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association, and the Methodology Section of the American Sociological Association.