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New Evidence on Gender Difference in Promotion Rates : An Empirical Analysis of a Sample of New Hires

Blau, Francine D. - 2006

Using a large sample of establishments drawn from the Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality (MCSUI) employer survey, we study gender differences in promotion rates and in the wage gains attached to promotions. Several unique features of our data distinguish our analysis from the previous...

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The Long-Run Impacts of Banning Affirmative Action in US Higher Education

Antman, Francisca M.; Duncan, Brian; Lovenheim, Michael F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This paper estimates the long-run impacts of banning affirmative action on men and women from under-represented minority (URM) racial and ethnic groups in the United States. Using data from the US Census and American Community Survey, we use a difference-in-differences framework to compare the...

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Dynamics of the Gender Gap for Young Professionals in the Corporate and Financial Sectors

Bertrand, Marianne; Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2009

This paper assesses the relative importance of various explanations for the gender gap in career outcomes for highly-educated workers in the U.S. corporate and financial sectors. The careers of MBAs, who graduated between 1990 and 2006 from a top U.S. business school, are studied to understand...

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Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise : Socioeconomic Status, Poor Health in Childhood, and Human Capital Development

Currie, Janet - 2008

There are many possible pathways between parental education, income, and health, and between child health and education … status (as measured by education, income, occupation, or in some cases area of residence) and child health, and between child … health and adult education or income. Specifically, I ask two questions: What is the evidence regarding whether parental …

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Education and Labor Market Consequences of Teenage Childbearing : Evidence Using the Timing of Pregnancy Outcomes and Community Fixed Effects

Fletcher, Jason M. - 2008

probability of receiving a high school diploma by 5 to 10 percentage points, reduces annual income as a young adult by $1,000 to …

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Handedness and Earnings

Ruebeck, Christopher S. - 2006

We examine whether handedness is related to performance in the labor market and, in particular, earnings. We find a significant wage effect for left-handed men with high levels of education. This positive wage effect is strongest among those who have lower than average earnings relative to those...

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Supervisors and Performance Management Systems

Frederiksen, Anders - 2017

Supervisors occupy central roles in production and performance monitoring. We study how heterogeneity in performance evaluations across supervisors affects employee and supervisor careers and firm outcomes using data on the performance system of a Scandinavian service sector firm. We show that...

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The Minimum Wage and the Great Recession : Evidence of Effects on the Employment and Income Trajectories of Low-Skilled Workers

Clemens, Jeffrey - 2014

We estimate the minimum wage's effects on low-skilled workers' employment and income trajectories. Our approach …, negative effects on the employment and income growth of targeted workers. Lost income reflects contributions from employment …

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Labor Market Effects of Intrauterine Exposure to Nutritional Deficiency : Evidence from Administrative Data on Muslim Immigrants in Denmark

Schultz-Nielsen, Marie Louise - 2014

This paper examines whether nutritional disruptions experienced during the stage of fetal development impair an individual's labor market productivity later in life. We consider intrauterine exposure to the month of Ramadan as a natural experiment that might cause shocks to the inflow of...

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Estimating the Return to College Selectivity over the Career Using Administrative Earnings Data

Dale, Stacy - 2011

We estimate the monetary return to attending a highly selective college using the College and Beyond (C&B) Survey linked to Detailed Earnings Records from the Social Security Administration (SSA). This paper extends earlier work by Dale and Krueger (2002) that examined the relationship between...

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