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Is Marriage Always Good for Children? Evidence from Families Affected by Incarceration

Neumark, David; Finlay, Keith - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

One-third of children in the United States are born to unmarried parents. A substantial number of black and Hispanic … children live with a never-married mother. Children of never-married mothers are more likely to drop out of high school, repeat … grades, and have behavioral problems than are children raised in more traditional family structures. But these relationships …

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Labor Market Information and Wage Differentials by Race and Sex

Neumark, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1998

This paper attempts to test whether information problems in labor markets can explain why minority or female workers are sometimes paid less than equally-qualified white male workers. In particular, the relationship between starting wages, current performance, and race and sex is studied. OLS...

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Are Affirmative Action Hires Less Qualified? Evidence from Employer-Employee Data on New Hires

Neumark, David; Holzer, Harry - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1996

In this paper we use micro-level data on employers and employees to investigate whether Affirmative Action procedures lead firms to hire minority or female employees who are less qualified than workers who might otherwise be hired. Our measures of qualifications include the educational...

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Market Forces and Sex Discrimination

Hellerstein, Judith K.; Neumark, David; Troske, Kenneth R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1997

We report new evidence on the existence of sex discrimination in wages and whether competitive market forces act to reduce or eliminate discrimination. Specifically, we use plant- and firm-level data to examine the relationships between profitability, growth and ownership changes, product market...

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Relative Income Concerns and the Rise in Married Women's Employment

Neumark, David; Postlewaite, Andrew - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1995

We ask whether women's decisions to be in the labor force may be affected by the decisions of other women in ways not captured by standard models. We develop a model that augments the simple neoclassical framework by introducing relative income concerns into women's (or families') utility...

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Changes in Workplace Segregation in the United States between 1990 and 2000: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data

Hellerstein, Judith K.; Neumark, David; McInerney, Melissa - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

We present evidence on changes in workplace segregation by education, race, ethnicity, and sex, from 1990 to 2000. The evidence indicates that racial and ethnic segregation at the workplace level remained quite pervasive in 2000. At the same time, there was fairly substantial segregation by...

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Why are Racial and Ethnic Wage Gaps Larger for Men than for Women? Exploring the Role of Segregation

Hellerstein, Judith K.; Neumark, David; Troske, Kenneth R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1999

We examine the possible sources of the larger racial and ethnic wage gaps for men than for women in the U.S. Specifically, using a newly created employer-employee matched data set containing workers in essentially all occupations, industries, and regions, we examine whether these wage...

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What Does Affirmative Action Do?

Holzer, Harry J.; Neumark, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1998

We use data from a survey of employers to investigate how Affirmative Action in recruiting and hiring influences hiring practices, personnel policies, and ultimately employment outcomes. Our results show that Affirmative Action increases the number of recruitment and screening practices used by...

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Assessing Affirmative Action

Neumark, David; Holzer, Harry - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1999

Although the debate over Affirmative Action is both high-profile and high-intensity, neither side's position is based on a well-established set of research findings. Economics provides an extensive, well-known literature on which to draw regarding the existence and extent of labor market...

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Sex Discrimination in Restaurant Hiring: An Audit Study

Neumark, David; Bank, Roy J.; Nort, Kyle D. Van - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1995

This paper reports on a small-scale audit study that investigates sex discrimination in restaurant hiring. Comparably matched pairs of men and women applied for jobs as waiters and waitresses at 65 restaurants in Philadelphia. The 130 applications led to 54 interviews and 39 job offers. The...

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