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Using CPS data from 1979-2009 we examine how cyclical downturns and industry-specific demand shocks affect wage differentials between white non-Hispanic men and women, Hispanics and non-Hispanic whites, and African-Americans and non-Hispanic whites. Women's relative earnings are harmed by...
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, sociologists and the general public believe that women work more. The widespread average equality does not arise from gender … in total work time—work for pay and work at home. In rich non-Catholic countries on four continents men and women do … about the same average amount of total work. Survey results demonstrate, however, that labor economists, macroeconomists …
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facts do not arise from gender differences in the price of time (as measured by market wages), as women’s total work is … from family norms, since most of the variance in the gender total work difference is due to within-couple differences. We … withineducation group and within-region gender differences in total work being smaller than inter-group differences. It is consistent …
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women perform more total work. The facts do not arise from gender differences in the price of time (as measured by market … marital status; nor do they stem from family norms, since most of the variance in the gender total work difference is due to … to account for within-education group and within-region gender differences in total work being smaller than inter …
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market work--as requiring the most interaction with the native world, and these activities more than others fit the …
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-establishment cells. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first paper to examine segregation by race and ethnicity at the level of …
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and pitcher match race/ethnicity. This effect only exists where there is little scrutiny of umpires' behavior -- in … determine the outcome of the at-bat. If a pitcher shares the home-plate umpire's race/ethnicity, he gives up fewer runs per game …
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with other skilled workers than with unskilled workers--and by race and ethnicity, using simulation methods to measure … education- and language-related skill differentials in generating workplace segregation by race and ethnicity, as skill is often … correlated with race and ethnicity. Finally, we attempt to distinguish between segregation by skill based on general crowding of …
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Evidence from the American Time Use Survey 2003-12 suggests the existence of small but statistically significant racial/ethnic differences in time spent not working at the workplace. Minorities, especially men, spend a greater fraction of their workdays not working than do white non-Hispanics....
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We assemble a new matched employer-employee data set covering essentially all industries and occupations across all regions of the U.S. We use this data set to re-examine the question of the relative contributions to the overall sex gap in wages of sex segregation vs. wage differences by sex...
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