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Early Life Environment and Racial Inequality in Education and Earnings in the United States
Chay, Kenneth; Guryan, Jonathan; Mazumder, Bhashkar - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Chay, Guryan and Mazumder (2009) found substantial racial convergence in AFQT and NAEP scores across cohorts born in the 1960's and early 1970's that was concentrated among blacks in the South. We demonstrated a close tracking between variation in the test score convergence across states and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951110
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The Demographic Transition and the Sexual Division of Labor
Soares, Rodrigo R.; Falcao, Bruno L. S. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
fertility. The paper suggests a link between changes in mortality and transformations in the role of women in society that has … capital and to have children. Particularly, gains in adult longevity reduce fertility, increase investments in market human … reductions, though reducing fertility, do not generate this same pattern of changes. The model reconciles the increase in female …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005088850
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Racial Discrimination in the Labor Market: Theory and Empirics
Lang, Kevin; Lehmann, Jee-Yeon K. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
We review theories of race discrimination in the labor market. Taste-based models can generate wage and unemployment duration differentials when combined with either random or directed search even when strong prejudice is not widespread, but no existing model explains the unemployment rate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323431
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Decomposition Methods in Economics
Fortin, Nicole M.; Lemieux, Thomas; Firpo, Sergio - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of decomposition methods that have been developed since the seminal work of Oaxaca and Blinder in the early 1970s. These methods are used to decompose the difference in a distributional statistic between two groups, or its change over time, into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008634705
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Wage Dispersion, Returns to Skill, and Black-White Wage Differentials
Card, David E.; Lemieux, Thomas - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1993
rose over the decade. We explore a simple method for estimating and testing 'single index' models of wages. Our approach … relatively successful account of changes in the structure of wages for white men and women between 1979 and 1989. We then use the … estimated models for whites to analyze recent changes in the relative wages of black men and women. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005720165
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Beauty and the Labor Market
Hamermesh, Daniel; Biddle, Jeff E. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005778655
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The Role of Pre-Market Factors in Black-White Wage Differences
Neal, Derek A.; Johnson, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1995
Many attempts to measure the wage effects of current labor market discrimination against minorities include controls for worker productivity that (1) could themselves be affected by market discrimination and (2) are very imprecise measures of worker skill. The resulting estimates of residual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005575153
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A Community College Instructor Like Me: Race and Ethnicity Interactions in the Classroom
Fairlie, Robert W.; Oreopoulos, Philip; Hoffmann, Florian - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
Detailed administrative data from a large and diverse community college are used to examine if academic performance depends on whether students are the same race or ethnicity as their instructors. To identify racial interactions and address many threats to internal validity we estimate models...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009278254
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Trends in Occupational Segregation by Gender 1970-2009: Adjusting for the Impact of Changes in the Occupational Coding System
Blau, Francine; Liu, Albert Yung-Hsu; Brummund, Peter - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
In this paper, we develop a gender-specific crosswalk based on dual-coded Current Population Survey data to bridge the change in the Census occupational coding system that occurred in 2000 and use it to provide the first analysis of the trends in occupational segregation by sex for the 1970-2009...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011227920
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Wages, Productivity, and Worker Characteristics: Evidence from Plant-Level Production Functions and Wage Equations
Hellerstein, Judith K.; Neumark, David; Troske, Kenneth R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1996
-level production functions and wage equations, and thus to compare relative marginal products and relative wages for various groups of … workers. The data and empirical framework lead to new evidence on numerous questions regarding the determination of wages …, questions that hinge on the relationship between wages and marginal products of workers in different demographic groups. These …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005778066