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Spatial-ethnic inequalities : the role of location in the estimation of ethnic wage differentials
Longhi, Simonetta - 2017
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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Changing ingroup boundaries: the effect of immigration on race relations in the US
Fouka, Vasiliki; Tabellini, Marco - 2021
combine survey and crime data with a difference-in-differences design and an instrumental variables strategy. Consistent with …
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Colorism and immigrant earnings in the United States, 2015-2024
Hersch, Joni - 2024
similar to that found using 2003 data on individual immigrants. Controls for extensive labor market characteristics and race …
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Average gaps and Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions : a cautionary tale about regression estimates of racial differences in labor market outcomes
Słoczyński, Tymon - 2018
In this paper I demonstrate, both theoretically and empirically, that the interpretation of regression estimates of between-group differences in economic outcomes depends on the relative sizes of subpopulations under study. When the disadvantaged group is small, regression estimates are similar...
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Last hired, first fired? : black-white unemployment and the business cycle
Couch, Kenneth A. (contributor);  … - 2008
blacks rather than increases in hiring. -- Race ; unemployment ; business cycle …
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"Can't get enough" : prejudice, contact jobs and the racial wage gap in the US
Laouénan, Morgane - 2014
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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Decomposing US income inequality à la Shapley : race matters, but gender too
Chantreuil, Frédéric; Fourrey, Kévin; Lebon, Isabelle; … - 2020
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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Disparities in psychological traits and income : race, ethnicity, and gender in the U.S.
Dariel, Aurélie; Ham, John C.; Nikiforakis, Nikos; … - 2024
and significant portion of all five race-gender income gaps with White men. …
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Skin Tone's decreasing importance on employment : evidence from a longitudinal dataset, 1985-2000
Akee, Randall; Yuksel, Mutlu - 2010
measure of skin tone from a light-spectrometer and a self-reported measure of race we find that over time the effect of skin … year panel data. We find that the expansion of employment for women is concentrated in the services occupations. -- race …
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Heterogeneity in schooling rates of return
Henderson, Daniel J.; Polachek, Solomon W.; Wang, Le - 2011
This paper relaxes the assumption of homogeneous rates of return to schooling by employing nonparametric kernel regression. This approach allows us to examine the differences in rates of return to education both across and within groups. Similar to previous studies we find that on average blacks...
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