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Put differently, indulging discriminatory preferences comes at a cost in this framework.
We retrieve here Becker's (1957) assumption on the discriminatory preferences of customers.
In tight labor markets firms could not as easily indulge either their own or their customers' discriminatory preferences (Bursell 2007).
First, firms may treat candidates with ethnically-differentiated names differently if they believe their own customers have discriminatory preferences.
In the non-segregating equilibrium, all female workers receive a lower wage than men, no matter whether they work for an employer with or without discriminatory preferences.
According to Becker, discrimination stems from personal prejudices among employers, co-workers, or consumers that constitute discriminatory preferences among these groups.
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Discriminatory preference for any group, minority or majority, is precisely and only what Congress has proscribed.
The Court cites three provisions of the Act which, it argues, demonstrate a "discriminatory preference for the teaching of creation science" and no interest in "academic freedom". Ante at 482 U.S. 588"]588.
Thus, in this case, as in Wallace, "[a]ppellants have not identified any secular purpose that was not fully served by [existing state law] before the enactment of [the statute in question]." 472 U.S. at 59. Furthermore, the goal of basic "fairness" is hardly furthered by the Act's discriminatory preference for the teaching of creation science and against the teaching of evolution.
To take an obvious counterexample, there is little if any justice in laws approved from a utilitarian impartial perspective when these laws take into account racially prejudiced preferences which are cultivated by grossly unequal, racially discriminatory and segregated social conditions.
For instance, Bowlus and Eckstein ([2002]) incorporate discriminatory employer preferences into Mortensen's ([1990]) equilibrium search model with on-the-job search.
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