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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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Unions and Wage Inequality : The Roles of Gender, Skill and Public Sector Employment

Card, David - 2018

We examine the changing relationship between unionization and wage inequality in Canada and the United States. Our study is motivated by profound recent changes in the composition of the unionized workforce. Historically, union jobs were concentrated among low-skilled men in private sector...

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Explaining Women's Success : Technological Change and the Skill Content of Women's Work

Black, Sandra E. - 2007

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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Labour Market Reforms and Changes in Wage Inequality in the United Kingdom and the United States

Gosling, Amanda - 2001

This paper compares trends in male and female hourly wage inequality in the United Kingdom and the United States between 1979 and 1998. Our main finding is that the extent and pattern of wage inequality became increasingly similar in the two countries during this period. We attribute this...

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Changing Wage Structure and Black-White Differentials Among Men and Women : A Longitudinal Analysis

Card, David - 1994

Despite several decades of research there is still widespread disagreement over the interpretation of the wage differences between black and white workers. Do the differences reflect productivity differences, discrimination, or both? If lower black earnings reflect a productivity difference,...

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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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