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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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The closing of the gender wage gap is an ongoing phenomenon in industrialized countries. However, research has been … limited in its ability to understand the causes of these changes, due in part to an inability to directly compare the work of … women to that of men. In this study, we use a new approach for analyzing changes in the gender pay gap that uses direct …
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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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Over the 1980s and 1990s the wage differentials between men and women (with similar observable characteristics) declined significantly. At the same time, the returns to education increased. It has been suggested that these two trends may reflect a common change in the relative price of a skill...
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