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Wage Discrimination over the Business Cycle

Biddle, Jeff E.; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

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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Total Work, Gender and Social Norms

Burda, Michael; Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Weil, Philippe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

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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How Do Immigrants Spend Time? : The Process of Assimilation

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2010

market work--as requiring the most interaction with the native world, and these activities more than others fit the …

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Strike Three : Umpires' Demand for Discrimination

Parsons, Christopher A. - 2007

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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A Model of Social Interactions and Endogenous Poverty Traps

Fryer, Roland G, Jr - 2006

This paper develops a model of social interactions and endogenous poverty traps. The key idea is captured in a framework in which the likelihood of future social interactions with members of one's group is partly determined by group-specific investments made by individuals. I prove three main...

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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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On the Measurement of Segregation

Echenique, Federico - 2005

This paper develops a measure of segregation based on two premises: (1) a measure of segregation should disaggregate to the level of individuals, and (2) an individual is more segregated the more segregated are the agents with whom she interacts. Developing three desirable axioms that any...

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Racial/Ethnic Differences in Non-Work at Work

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2017

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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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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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...

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