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Estimating Immigrant Earnings Profiles When Migrations are Temporary
Dustmann, Christian - 2016
The assumption that all migrations are permanent, which pervaded the early microdata-based research on immigrant career profiles, is not supported by the empirical evidence. Rather, many – if not most – migrations appear to be temporary. In this paper, therefore, we illustrate the estimation...
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Moral Hazard and Unemployment in Competitive Equilibrium
Rey, Patrick; Stiglitz, Joseph E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
, that frictions (sand-in-the-wheels) may decrease unemployment and that the equilibrium is determined by two simple …
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Returns to On-the-Job Search and the Dispersion of Wages
Gottfries, Axel - 2017
A wide class of models with On-the-Job Search (OJS) predicts that workers gradually select into better-paying jobs. We develop a simple methodology to test predictions implied by OJS using two sources of identification: (i) time-variation in job-finding rates and (ii) the time since the last...
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The Missing Link? Using LinkedIn Data to Measure Race, Ethnic, and Gender Differences in Employment Outcomes at Individual Companies
Berry, Alexander; Maloney, Elizabeth M.; Neumark, David - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Stronger enforcement of discrimination laws can help to reduce disparities in economic outcomes with respect to race …, ethnicity, and gender in the United States. However, the data necessary to detect possible discrimination and to act to counter …
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Labor mobility and racial discrimination
Deschamps, Pierre; Sousa, José de - In: European economic review : EER 135 (2021), pp. 1-29
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Education, Unemployment and Migration
Eggert, Wolfgang - 2009
This paper studies a two-region model in which unemployment, education decisions and interregional migration are … endogenous. The poorer region exhibits both lower wages and higher unemployment rates, and migrants to the richer region are … change reduces wages of the unskilled. Both education and migration decisions are distorted by a uniform unemployment …
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Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions
Arcidiacono, Peter - 2020
Detecting racial discrimination using observational data is challenging because of the presence of unobservables that … may be correlated with race. Using data made public in the SFFA v. Harvard case, we estimate discrimination in a setting …
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Asian American discrimination in Harvard admissions
Arcidiacono, Peter; Kinsler, Josh; Ransom, Tyler - In: European economic review : EER 144 (2022), pp. 1-17
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The Limits of Educational Attainment in Mitigating Occupational Segregation Between Black and White Workers
Jardina, Ashley; Blair, Peter Q.; Heck, Justin; Debroy, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Past work has documented significant occupational segregation between Black and white workers in the U.S. labor force. Little work, however, has examined racial occupational segregation in recent years or by levels of education and then at the intersection of education and race. In this paper,...
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Race and Gender Pay Differentials
Blau, Francine D. - 1992
In this paper we review research findings from the 1980s and early 1990s on race and gender pay gaps. In addition. we present some evidence from the Current Population Surveys (1972, 1982 and 1989) regarding the impact of shifts in the industrial composition of employment and in interindustry...
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