state and federal minimum wage policies on gender, race, and ethnic inequality throughout the wage distribution, focusing on … gender, racial, and ethnic inequality in the present day …

Using 1994-2003 CPS data, we study gender and assimilation of Mexican Americans. Source …country patterns, particularly the more traditional gender division of labor in the family in Mexico …

participation, occupational attainment, and the gender wage gap. The author first highlights considerable progress on all dimensions … resumption of progress in narrowing gender gaps in these areas, concluding it is unlikely without policy intervention. She then … considers some new policy initiatives addressing work-family issues and labor market discrimination that may hold potential for …

inequities. We then go on to consider possible explanations for the continuing gender differences and some of the empirical …

children retain a Mexican ethnicity. Such findings raise the possibility that selective ethnic "attrition" might bias observed …