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, ethnicity, and gender in the United States. However, the data necessary to detect possible discrimination and to act to counter … pictures to identify race, ethnicity, and gender. We show that one can use LinkedIn data to obtain reasonably reliable measures … of workforce demographic composition by race, ethnicity, and gender, based on validation exercises comparing estimates …
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This chapter reviews key literature studying the effects of wars on minority and underrepresented groups in U.S. labor markets in the 20th century. These labor markets, characterized by historically pervasive barriers to entry into certain occupations and industries, promotions, and fair pay for...
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by race and ethnicity, using granular statistics describing income distributions, income mobility, and conditional income …
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The authors explore unique complete-count data from the 1930 Census in which a respondent's race was assigned by enumerators and "Mexican" was one of the possible responses. Census enumerators frequently and selectively assigned a non-Mexican race--predominantly "white"--to U.S.-born individuals...
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We analyze temporal trends in cultural distance between groups in the US defined by income, education, gender, race … based on his or her (i) media consumption, (ii) consumer behavior, (iii) time use, or (iv) social attitudes. Gender …
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on the depiction of risk and gender roles. Films that promote risk-taking sell more in entrepreneurial societies today … continue to find a robust audience in societies with similar gender stereotypes in their folklore and where women today …
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While observational evidence suggests that people behave more prosocially towards members of their own ethnic group, many laboratory studies fail to find this effect. One possible explanation is that coethnic preference only emerges during times of stress. To test this hypothesis, we...
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specifically, Mexican. Linking data on self-reported ethnicity, ancestry, and parental place of birth with county-level voter … discrimination and hostility. At the same time, anti-minority sentiment may raise the salience of ethnicity and race and thus …
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author demographics based on names, we explore the link between race and ethnicity and fields of economic research. We find …
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Although research has shown that court-ordered hiring quotas increase the number of minority police officers in litigated cities, there has been little insight into how workforce diversity, or lack thereof, may impact police violence against civilians. Using an event study framework, we find...
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