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Bias in the Legal Profession: Self-Assessed versus Statistical Measures of Discrimination

Antecol, Heather; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Helland, Eric - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

(i) client discrimination; (ii) other work-related discrimination; and (iii) harassment. Overall, our results indicate … that conventional measures of earnings discrimination are not closely linked to the racial and gender bias that new lawyers … disparity in self-assessed bias across gender and racial groups. …

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International Migration of Couples

Junge, Martin; Munk, Martin D.; Poutvaara, Panu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We present a theory on migration of dual-earner couples and test it in the context of international migration. Our model predicts that the probability that a couple emigrates increases in the home-country earnings of the primary earner. The effect of the home-country earnings of the secondary...

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Immigrant Wage and Employment Assimilation: A Comparison of Methods

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Hanel, Barbara; McVicar, Duncan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We compare alternative methods for estimating immigrant wage and employment assimilation using unique panel data over 2001–2009 for a large, nationally-representative sample of immigrants. Previous assimilation estimates have been mainly based on cross-sectional data and have therefore...

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Do Non-Cognitive Skills Help Explain the Occupational Segregation of Young People?

Antecol, Heather; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

-dominated occupations is also related to the willingness to work hard, impulsivity, and the tendency to avoid problems. The nature of these …

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Getting Ahead: The Determinants of and Payoffs to Internal Promotion for Young U.S. Men and Women

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, this paper examines the role of gender in the promotion …. Specifically, how do the factors related to promotion differ for men and women? How do gender differences in promotion translate … into differences in subsequent wage growth? To what extent does the promotions gap contribute to the gender wage gap? In …

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Racial and Ethnic Discrimination in Local Consumer Markets: Exploiting the Army’s Procedures for Matching Personnel to Duty Locations

Antecol, Heather; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

We use the exogenous assignment of Army personnel to duty locations to analyze the relationship between the characteristics of local markets and the propensity for consumers to be subjected to racial discrimination in their everyday commercial transactions. Overall, one in ten soldiers report...

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Identity and Racial Harassment

Antecol, Heather; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

In a 1996 survey of U.S. military personnel, more than 65 percent experienced racially offensive behavior, and approximately one-in-ten reported threatening incidents or careerrelated racial discrimination. Perceived racial harassment is driven by social classifications that extend beyond racial...

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Immigration, Search, and Redistribution: A Quantitative Assessment of Native Welfare

Battisti, Michele; Felbermayr, Gabriel; Peri, Giovanni; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We study the effects of immigration on native welfare in a general equilibrium model featuring two skill types, search frictions, wage bargaining, and a redistributive welfare state. Our quantitative analysis suggests that, in all 20 countries studied, immigration attenuates the effects of...

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Self-Selection and Earnings of Emigrants from a Welfare State

Poutvaara, Panu; Munk, Martin D.; Junge, Martin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Following a seminal contribution by Borjas (1987), a large literature has analyzed how income distribution and redistribution are related to immigration to various rich countries. In this paper, we take a look at the other side of the coin. We analyze emigration from Denmark, which is one of the...

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Immigration and Status Exchange in Australia and the United States

Choi, Kate H.; Tienda, Marta; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

The claim that marriage is a venue for status exchange of achieved traits, like education, and ascribed attributes, notably race and ethnic membership, has regained traction in the social stratification literature. Most studies that consider status exchanges ignore birthplace as a social...

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