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This paper assesses the impact of labor mobility on racial discrimination. We present an equilibrium search model that … market mobility decreases racial discrimination. …
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This paper documents two new facts linking firm-size and gender pay gaps to informal employment using micro-level data from Turkey. First, we show that the firm-size wage gap, defined as larger firms paying higher wages to observationally equivalent workers, is greater for informal employment...
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In this paper, the socioeconomic and individual characteristics that favor mobility are analyzed. The stochastic frontier technique is used as an instrument of analysis to measure the differences that arise between the potential wage and the one that should be obtained for an individual with...
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receive higher wages. Specifically, we are able to distinguish taste-based discrimination from rational statistical … discrimination and biased beliefs. Using three realistic worker tasks to increase the external validity of our results, we find that … discrimination. …
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surprising yet straightforward conclusions regarding efficiency, discrimination and taxation: Workers capture job rents; wage …
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The purpose of this paper is threefold. First, it complements the many wage discrimination studies by examining exit … discrimination in the NBA using a decade's worth of data (the 1980's). White players have a 36% lower risk of being cut than black … white, and 5.5 seasons for the same player who is black. Second, the career earnings effect of exit discrimination in the …
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superior to those provided by discriminating firms etc. Besides, we find a similar result to the classical discrimination …’s wage when the fraction of discriminating firms is small and the degree of recruiting discrimination and disutility are mild …
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opportunities and discrimination? Chapter 3 investigates the effect of host society culture on migrant wage discrimination. It …
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or sexual discrimination …
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.e., discrimination). We found that, in absolute terms, the latter component grows across wage distribution, reflecting the existence of a …
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