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Vernon, Victoria - EconWPA - 2002

This paper applies parametric and nonparametric techniques to the most recent data from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) 1992- 2000 and shows the returns to schooling increased over the course of transition, overall and for attainment cohorts neither at the top nor bottom of the...

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Negative Stereotypes and Willingness to Change Them: Testing Theories of Discrimination in South Africa

Aguero, Jorge - EconWPA - 2005

This paper proposes a new test to distinguish between the two leading theories of discrimination: preference versus information. Discrimination based on preferences occurs when people behave as if they refuse to change their stereotypes about the capabilities of discriminated individuals. Those...

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Spatial Effects upon Employment Outcomes: The Case of New Jersey Teenagers

O'Regan, Katherine M.; Quigley, John M. - EconWPA - 1998

Theories about the importance of space in urban labor markets have emphasized the role of employment access, on the one … hand, and neighborhood composition, on the other hand, in affecting employment outcomes. This paper presents an empirical … in affecting youth employment. The analysis is based upon an unusually rich sample of micro data on youth in four New …

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Why Are Racial And Ethnic Wage Gaps Larger For Men Than For Women? Exploring The Role Of Segregation Using The New Worker-Establishment Characteristics Database

Bayard, Kimberly; Hellerstein, Judith; Neumark, David; … - EconWPA - 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's in a Name?

Aura, Saku; Hess, Gregory D. - EconWPA - 2004

Plenty. This paper analyzes two broad questions: Does your first name matter? And how did you get your first name anyway? Using data from the National Opinion Research Center’s (NORC's) General Social Survey, including access to respondent’s first names from the 1994 and 2002 surveys, we...

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Evolution, Green Beards, And Skin Hue Wage Discrimination

Price, Gregory N. - EconWPA - 1996

This paper provides an evolutionary rationale for both interracial and intraracial wage differentials by examining the implications of white employers mediating their employer-employee relationships on the basis of genetic similarity. If in organized labor markets, relationships mediated through...

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Affirmative Action in Hierarchies

Scotchmer, Suzanne - EconWPA - 2003

There is considerable evidence that males are more prone to take risks than females. This difference has implications for rates of promotion in hierarchies where promotion is based on random signals of ability. I explore the promotion consequences of three types of performance standards:...

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INEQUALITY AND DETERMINANTS OF EARNINGS IN MALAYSIA, 1984-97

Milanovic, Branko - EconWPA - 2005

Using the large nationally-representative Malaysian Household Income Surveys from 1984, 1989 and 1997, the paper studies earnings inequality and determinants of earnings. During the period 1984-97, Malaysia’s real per capita GDP increased by about 70 percent, participation rates for both men...

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Directions of Trade Flows and Labor Movements between High- And Low-Population Growth Countries: An Overlapping Generations General Equilibrium Analysis

Sayan, Serdar; Uyar, Ali Emre - EconWPA - 2002

This paper considers a two-country world where the population in one country grows faster than the other, and investigates the implications of the addition of non-stationary population dynamics to a simple 2- commodity, 2-factor model of international trade within an overlapping- generations...

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Long-Term Labour Force Projections for the 25 EU Member States:A set of data for assessing the economic impact of ageing

Carone, Giuseppe - EconWPA - 2005

in the participation rates and the reduction in unemployment rates, the pace of labour force and employment growth in the …

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