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Occupations are segregated by sex today, but were far more segregated in the early to mid-twentieth century when married women began to enter the labor force in large numbers. It is difficult to rationalize sex segregation and 'wage discrimination' on the basis of men's taste for distance from...
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In the past two decades gender pay differences have narrowed considerably and a declining significance of gender has … there was a rising significance of gender. The emergence of gender distinctions accompanied several important changes in the … acquire known and verifiable credentials. The shift from the rising to the declining significance of gender may have involved …
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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 …
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We develop a model of self-sustaining discrimination in wages, coupled with higher unemployment and shorter employment duration among blacks. While white workers are hired and retained indefinitely without monitoring, black workers are monitored and fired if a negative signal is received. The...
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In this paper we review research findings from the 1980s and early 1990s on race and gender pay gaps. In addition. we … industrial composition of employment and in interindustry wage differentials on these gaps. The gender gap in pay was stable in …
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Research on sex differences in humans documents gender differences in sensory, motor and spatial aptitudes. These … of gender based occupational segregation by 20-23 percent in 1970 and 2012. Eliminating selection on DOT variables …
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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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Why did the Black-White wage gap converge from 1960 to 1980 and why has it stagnated since? To answer this question, we introduce a unified model that integrates notions of both taste-based and statistical discrimination into a task-based model of occupational sorting. At the heart of our...
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We characterize the conditions under which the wage distributions for two groups are consistent with a general model of statistical discrimination. We adapt this theoretical characterization to develop a novel empirical test, the rejection of which we interpret as evidence of taste-based...
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