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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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Past work has documented significant occupational segregation between Black and white workers in the U.S. labor force. Little work, however, has examined racial occupational segregation in recent years or by levels of education and then at the intersection of education and race. In this paper,...
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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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-generation immigrants and the second-generation consisting of the US-born children of immigrants. Continued progress beyond the second …-generation descendants of Hispanic immigrants often do not self-identify as Hispanic when they come from families with mixed ethnic origins …
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had lower-earning, less-educated husbands. These patterns are consistent with more severe contemporaneous discrimination … contemporaneous discrimination, consistent with the "one-drop" racial classification rule that grouped together individuals with any … historical or family-level discrimination …
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job-to-job mobility to study policy spillovers in the context of three local minimum wage increases. Estimated spillover …
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