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similar to that found using 2003 data on individual immigrants. Controls for extensive labor market characteristics and race …
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We investigate the relative significance of differences in cognitive skills and discrimination in explaining racial/ethnic wage gaps. We show that cognitive test scores taken prior to entering the labor market are influenced by schooling. Adjusting the scores for racial/ethnic differences in...
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factors in income differences - race and gender - that contribute to income inequality within the population of blacks and … defined by the Gini index varies from 1% to 4% depending on the geographical administrative divisions used. Race tends to … inequality associated with gender exceeds greatly that of race. While gender income inequality falls over time, income inequality …
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The wage gap between African-Americans and white Americans is substantial in the US and has slightly narrowed over the past 30 years. Today, blacks have almost achieved the same educational level as whites. There is reason to believe that discrimination driven by prejudice plays a part in...
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Analyses of ethnic and racial wage differentials neglect the fact that minorities cluster in urban and in more deprived areas. This paper estimates ethnic wage differentials by comparing minorities to the majority in the same local labour market and therefore facing similar socio-economic...
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Many of the positive economic trends coming out of the Civil Rights Era for black men stagnated or reversed during the late 1970s and early 1980s. These changes were concurrent with a rapid rise in import competition from Japan. We assess the impact of this trade shock on racial disparities...
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-white employees, a finding that is consistent with employer discrimination on grounds of race, or lower worker bargaining power when …
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We decompose the ethnic pay gap in Great Britain across the distribution of hourly wages, yielding a detailed insight into differences between groups and how these vary over pay percentiles and through time. While some groups experience reductions in the pay gap consistent with lower...
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The study examines whether age intersects with gender and race during the initial stage of the hiring process and …
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We investigate the extent and underlying mechanisms of how race beliefs associated with applicants' names affect hiring … lower levels of education, productivity and noncognitive skills. Notably, this race penalty persists when considering only … variation in race perception for the same name and when omitting distinctly Black names. Conducting an incentivized hiring …
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