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Automation and Gender : Implications for Occupational Segregation and the Gender Skill Gap
Cortés, Patricia; Feng, Ying; Guida-Johnson, Nicolás; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
effect is that initially routine-intensive local labor markets experienced greater occupational gender integration. College …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014468230
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How Do Immigrants Spend Time? : The Process of Assimilation
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2010
market work--as requiring the most interaction with the native world, and these activities more than others fit the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462226
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An Empirical Analysis of 'Acting White'
Fryer, Roland G, Jr - 2005
There is a debate among social scientists regarding the existence of a peer externality commonly referred to as 'acting white.' Using a newly available data set (the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health), which allows one to construct an objective measure of a student's popularity,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467349
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461197
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Gender Differences in Job Search and the Earnings Gap : Evidence from Business Majors
Cortés, Patricia; Pan, Jessica; Pilossoph, Laura; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
To understand gender differences in the job search process, we collect rich information on job offers and acceptances … facts: (1) there is a clear gender difference in the timing of job offer acceptance, with women accepting jobs substantially … earlier than men, and (2) the gender earnings gap in accepted offers narrows in favor of women over the course of the job …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012533369
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Age, Cohort and Co-Authorship
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2015
' willingness to work with different coauthors. There are only small gender differences in the impacts of age on numbers of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457728
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459191