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Beauty and the Labor Market
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 1993
We develop a theory of sorting across occupations based on looks and derive its implications for testing for the source of earnings differentials related to looks. These differentials are examined using the 1977 Quality of Employment, the 1971 Quality of American Life, and the 1981 Canadian...
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The Effectiveness of Equal Employment Law and Affirmative Action Regulation
Leonard, Jonathan S. - 1985
This paper reviews some recent empirical analyses of the impact of affirmative action and anti-discrimination law on … seems more compatible with an earnings redistribution rather than an anti-discrimination program. 4)While many of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477334
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The Interaction of Residential Segregation and Employment Discrimination
Leonard, Jonathan S. - 1984
This paper seeks to disentangle the impactof residential segregation from that of employment discrimination in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477822
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Employment and Occupational Advance Under Affirmative Action
Leonard, Jonathan S. - 1984
Affirmative Action is not only supposed to help move minorities and females into employment, it is also supposed to help move them up the job ladder, and it is this second goal that is perhaps the more controversial. Studies of Affirmative Action during thel ate 1960's and early 1910's found it...
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Within Group "Structural" Tests of Labor-Market Discrimination : A Study of Persons with Serious Disabilities
Salkever, David S. - 1997
Labor-market discrimination measures are usually derived from between-group comparisons of market outcomes for favored … heterogeneous, one can relate variations in discrimination intensity to market outcomes within the disfavored group. We use this … approach to test for employment and wage discrimination against persons with various types of disabilities. Measures of social …
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Determining the Impact of Federal Antidiscrimination Policy on the Economic Status of Blacks : A Study of South Carolina
Heckman, James J. - 1989
This paper assesses the contribution of federal antidiscrimination policy to the dramatic improvement of black economic status in manufacturing that occurred in South Carolina in the mid 1960's. Using a unique data source on wages and employment by race and sex in South Carolina we evaluate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012476202
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Canadian Labour Market Dynamics During COVID-19
Jones, Stephen R. G.; Lange, Fabian; Riddell, William Craig - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The Canadian labor market experienced a period of unprecedented turmoil following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. We analyze the main changes using standard labor force statistics and new data on job postings. Envisaging a phase of temporary severing of employment relationships followed by a...
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Variation in Employment Growth in Canada : The Role of External, National, Regional and Industrial Factors
Altonji, Joseph G. - 1986
growth. Although U.S. shocks are the dominant influence on aggregate employment growth in Canada, sectoral shocks account for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477261
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Local Labor Markets in Canada and the United States
Albouy, David - 2019
We examine local labor markets in the U.S. and Canada from 1990 to 2011 using comparable household and business data …. Wage levels and inequality rise with city population in both countries, albeit less in Canada. Neither country saw wage … similarly, although in Canada they attract immigrant and highly-skilled workers more, while raising housing costs less. Chinese …
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A Comparative Analysis of the Labor Market Impact of International Migration : Canada, Mexico, and the United States
Aydemir, Abdurrahman - 2006
migration narrowed wage inequality in Canada; increased it in the United States; and reduced the relative wage of workers at the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466338