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, that frictions (sand-in-the-wheels) may decrease unemployment and that the equilibrium is determined by two simple …
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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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Low-skilled immigrants indirectly affect public finances through their effect on resident wages & labor supply. We …
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We study the 2011 Austrian Pay Transparency Law, which requires firms above a size threshold to publish internal reports on the gender pay gap. Using an event-study design, we show that the policy had no discernible effects on male and female wages, thus leaving the gender wage gap unchanged....
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This paper assesses the impact of a large expansion of public childcare in Germany on wage inequality. Exploiting regional variation in childcare supply over the 1990s, I show that in regions with stronger increases in childcare, wage inequality among women increased less strongly compared to...
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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 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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A recent approach to testing for customer statistical discrimination involves studying price gaps between sellers from … a similar setting, testing for statistical discrimination against female doctors in an online health care market. But we … show that this kind of analysis does not provide evidence on statistical discrimination in this setting because doctors …
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