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

Bayard, Kimberly - 1999

-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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Spatial Mismatch or Racial Mismatch?

Hellerstein, Judith K. - 2007

We contrast the spatial mismatch hypothesis with what we term the racial mismatch hypothesis - that the problem is not a lack of jobs, per se, where blacks live, but a lack of jobs where blacks live into which blacks are hired. We first report new evidence on the spatial mismatch hypothesis,...

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Workplace Segregation in the United States : Race, Ethnicity, and Skill

Hellerstein, Judith - 2005

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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An Empirical Analysis of 'Acting White'

Fryer, Roland G, Jr - 2005

There is a debate among social scientists regarding the existence of a peer externality commonly referred to as 'acting white.' Using a newly available data set (the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health), which allows one to construct an objective measure of a student's popularity,...

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Parental Incentives and Early Childhood Achievement : A Field Experiment in Chicago Heights

Fryer, Roland G, Jr - 2015

This article describes a randomized field experiment in which parents were provided financial incentives to engage in behaviors designed to increase early childhood cognitive and executive function skills through a parent academy. Parents were rewarded for attendance at early childhood sessions,...

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

Hellerstein, Judith - 2007

We present evidence on changes in workplace segregation by education, race, ethnicity, and sex, from 1990 to 2000. The … find no evidence of declines in workplace segregation by race and ethnicity; indeed, black-white segregation increased …

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Labor Market Information and Wage Differentials by Race and Sex

Neumark, David - 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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