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Gender Reveals in the Labor Market : Evidence on Gender Signaling and Statistical Discrimination in an Online Health Care Market
He, Haoran - 2024
different gender, race, or ethnic groups and how they evolve as buyers obtain more information about seller quality. We consider … have a choice about how strongly to signal gender. We develop a new approach to identifying statistical discrimination … using doctors' choices about signaling their gender. We find evidence of statistical discrimination against female doctors …
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Spatial Mismatch, Immigrant Networks, and Hispanic Employment in the United States
Hellerstein, Judith K. - 2009
We study the relationship between Hispanic employment and location-specific measures of the distribution of jobs. We find that it is only the local density of jobs held by Hispanics that matters for Hispanic employment, that measures of local job density defined for Hispanic poor English...
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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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