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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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Monitoring Costs and Occupational Segregation by Sex : An Historical Analysis

Goldin, Claudia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 1985

1900 to 1920 and an organization of work was employed resembling that used earlier in manufacturing. These findings can be …

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A Pollution Theory of Discrimination : Male and Female Differences in Occupations and Earnings

Goldin, Claudia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2002

discrimination' on the basis of men's taste for distance from women in the same way differences between other groups in work and …

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The Rising (and then Declining) Significance of Gender

Goldin, Claudia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2002

In the past two decades gender pay differences have narrowed considerably and a declining significance of gender has … there was a rising significance of gender. The emergence of gender distinctions accompanied several important changes in the … economy including the rise of white-collar work for women and increases in women's educational attainment. Firms adopted …

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Endophilia or Exophobia : Beyond Discrimination

Feld, Jan - 2013

favoritism nor discrimination by gender, findings that are robust to a wide variety of potential concerns. We observe … heterogeneity in both discrimination and favoritism by nationality and by gender in the distributions of graders' preferences. We …

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