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achievement level lead us to explore in this paper whether the increased immigration has differential effects by gender and race …
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even a high-productivity candidate who is privately favoured by one agent, as may be the case in efforts to increase gender …
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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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lost documents, depression due to the visa process, presentation of self, the race-ethnic composition of an immigrant …
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This paper proposes an extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition from two to a continuum of comparison groups. The proposed decomposition is then estimated for the case of racial wage differences in urban Peru, exploiting a novel data set that allows the capturing of mestizaje (racial mixtures).
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and Program Participation (SIPP) to investigate gender and race disparities in home ownership, value, and equity. These … value or home equity. Once households have entered the housing market, differences across gender, race and family type are … associated with differences that are larger than those based solely on gender and are as large as those associated solely with …
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This Chapter reviews evidence on discrimination in basketball, primarily examining studies on race but with some … discussion of gender as well. I focus on discrimination in pay, hiring, and retention against black NBA players and coaches and … pay disparities by gender among college coaches. There was much evidence for each of these forms of discrimination against …
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and gender gaps in outcomes. The technique cannot be used directly, however, if the outcome is binary and the coefficients …
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measure of skin tone from a light-spectrometer and a self-reported measure of race we find that over time the effect of skin …
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Using recent data from southern California and Mexico we challenge the notion that the demographic profile of post-1970 Mexican migrants to the United States has remained constant. We find that more recent cohorts of migrants: (1) are more likely to settle permanently in the United States, (2)...
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