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Discrimination and Worker Evaluation
Cavounidis, Costas - 2015
We develop a model of self-sustaining discrimination in wages, coupled with higher unemployment and shorter employment … values the model has two steady states, one corresponding to each population group. Discrimination can persist even if the …
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Education and Labor-Market Discrimination
Lang, Kevin - 2006
We propose a model that combines statistical discrimination and educational sorting that explains why blacks get more …
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The Effect of the Payroll Tax on Earnings : A Test of Competing Models of Wage Determination
Lang, Kevin - 2003
contrast, because there is excess labor (involuntary unemployment) in equilibrium, efficiency wage models resemble models in …
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The Effects of Hours Constraints on Labor Supply Estimates
Kahn, Shulamit - 1988
Almost all labor supply models are estimated under the assumption that workers are free to choose their hours. However, theory, casual empiricism and survey data suggest that many workers are not free to vary the hours within a job. Consequently, labor supply estimates based on actual hours of...
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