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Competition and the racial wage gap : testing Becker's model of employer discrimination
Hirata, Guilherme; Soares, Rodrigo Reis - 2016
According to Becker's (1957) theory of taste-based employer discrimination, pure economic rents are necessary for discrimination to be observed in the labor market. Increased competition and reduced rents in the market for final goods should therefore lead to reduced labor market discrimination....
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Changing ingroup boundaries: the effect of immigration on race relations in the US
Fouka, Vasiliki; Tabellini, Marco - 2021
How do social group boundaries evolve? Does the appearance of a new outgroup change the ingroup's perceptions of other outgroups? We introduce a conceptual framework of context-dependent categorization, in which exposure to one minority leads to recategorization of other minorities as in- or...
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Incentives to identify: a comment
Antman, Francisca M.; Duncan, Brian - 2019
Antman and Duncan (2014, 2015) document how racial identity responds to state affirmative action policy. The main contribution of our work was to show that racial identity responds to state affirmative action policy. A coding error was recently brought to our attention that resulted in 0.55% of...
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Stalled racial progress and Japanese trade in the 1970s and 1980s
Batistich, Mary Kate; Bond, Timothy N. - 2019
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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The long run impact of childhood interracial contact on residential segregation
Merlino, Luca Paolo; Steinhardt, Max Friedrich; … - 2022
This paper exploits quasi-random variation in the share of Black students across cohorts within US schools to investigate whether interracial contact in childhood impacts the residential choices of Whites in adulthood. We find that, 20 years after exposure, Whites who had more Black peers of the...
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Injury risk, concussions, race, and pay in the NFL
Keefer, Quinn A. W.; Kniesner, Thomas J. - 2023
subsequent economic effects to those of other types of football injuries. Our other contribution is to study the role of race in … affected by type of injury and the player's race. We calculate that the average ex post loss in annual compensation from a … outcomes equally for white and nonwhite players. Both injuries and race affect compensation solely through their effects on …
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Race and the income-achievement gap
Bacic, Ryan; Zheng, Angela - 2023
parents, varies across race. Using education data linked to tax records, we find that the income-achievement gap is small for … the variation in the gap across race. Our results suggest that the large income-achievement gap for Indigenous students …
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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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Peers' race in adolescence and voting behavior
Polipciuc, Maria; Cörvers, Frank; Montizaan, Raymond - 2021
Using a representative longitudinal survey of U.S. teenagers, we investigate how peer racial composition in high school affects individual turnout of young adults. We exploit across-cohort, within-school differences in peer racial composition. One within-school standard deviation increase in the...
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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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