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In 1958 Jacob Mincer pioneered an important approach to understand how earnings are distributed across the population. In the years since Mincer’s seminal work, he as well as his students and colleagues extended the original human capital model, reaching important conclusions about a whole...
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, following standard controls. Such correlations can exist absent discrimination or as a result of discrimination. In wage level … discrimination helps determine the present pattern of job sorting, current discrimination cannot explain the relationship between … wages and racial density. Current discrimination reflected in racial wage gaps occurs within occupations or across …
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an independent signal of the candidate's productivity. We introduce the potential for taste-based discrimination and …
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This paper shows how a shorter fecundity horizon for females (a biological constraint) leads to age and educational disparities between husbands and wives. Empirical support is based on data from a natural experiment commencing before and ending after China's 1980 one-child law. The results...
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The IAB employment subsample is now available for researchers in a third, anonymised version. Following the so-called basic file and the regional file from the IAB employment subsample, which encompassed the years 1975 to 1990, the actualized version of the basic file covers now the years 1975...
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This paper explores secular changes in women’s pay relative to men’s pay. It shows how the human capital model predicts …
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Sixty-seven field experiments of discrimination in markets conducted since 2000 across seventeen countries were … surveyed. Significant and persistent discrimination was found on all bases in all markets. High levels of discrimination were … made no significant improvement to minority applicant outcomes. Clear evidence of statistical discrimination was found only …
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drug testing regulation to study discrimination against blacks related to perceived drug use. Black employment in the … testing sector is suppressed in the absence of testing, consistent with ex ante discrimination on the basis of drug use ….4-13.0%, with the largest shifts among low skilled black men. Results suggest that employers substitute white women for blacks in …
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This paper attempts to establish empirically whether natives' job satisfaction is adversely affected by having minority co-worker(s). The paper uses nationally representative linked employer-employee data and eight different facets of job satisfaction. Measuring minority co-worker status at the...
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This paper explores the issue of discrimination against Asian migrants in the Australian labour market using a unique … significant “unexplained differences” for males that may be ascribed to “discrimination” against Asian migrants. However, the …
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