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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015072871
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Do Higher Tipped Minimum Wages Reduce Race, Ethnic, or Gender Earnings Gaps for Restaurant Workers?
Neumark, David; Wohl, Emma - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
effects could differ by race and gender, so implications for hourly earnings do not necessarily extend to overall earnings. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015072905
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471803
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Racial Disparities in Job Finding and Offered Wages
Fryer, Roland G, Jr - 2011
The extent to which discrimination can explain racial wage gaps is one of the most divisive subjects in the social sciences. Using a newly available dataset, this paper develops a simple empirical test which, under plausible conditions, provides a lower bound on the extent of discrimination in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461197
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New Evidence on Sex Segregation and Sex Differences in Wages from Matched Employee-Employer Data
Bayard, Kimberly - 1999
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471797
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472236
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Endophilia or Exophobia : Beyond Discrimination
Feld, Jan - 2013
favoritism nor discrimination by gender, findings that are robust to a wide variety of potential concerns. We observe … heterogeneity in both discrimination and favoritism by nationality and by gender in the distributions of graders' preferences. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459191