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state and federal minimum wage policies on gender, race, and ethnic inequality throughout the wage distribution, focusing on … gender, racial, and ethnic inequality in the present day …
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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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We study the impact of selection bias on estimates of the gender pay gap, focusing on whether the gender pay gap has … find robust evidence that, after controlling for selection, there were large declines in the raw and the unexplained gender … and actual labor market experience. However, we note that substantial gender wage gaps remain. In 2015, at the median, the …
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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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