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The Costs of Job Displacement over the Business Cycle and Its Sources : Evidence from Germany
Schmieder, Johannes; Wachter, Till von; Heining, Jörg - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We document the sources behind the costs of job loss over the business cycle using administrative data from Germany. Losses in annual earnings after displacement are large, persistent, and highly cyclical, nearly doubling in size during downturns. A large part of the long-term earnings losses...
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Moral Hazard and Unemployment in Competitive Equilibrium
Rey, Patrick; Stiglitz, Joseph E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
, that frictions (sand-in-the-wheels) may decrease unemployment and that the equilibrium is determined by two simple …
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The Missing Link? Using LinkedIn Data to Measure Race, Ethnic, and Gender Differences in Employment Outcomes at Individual Companies
Berry, Alexander; Maloney, Elizabeth M.; Neumark, David - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
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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Labor mobility and racial discrimination
Deschamps, Pierre; Sousa, José de - In: European economic review : EER 135 (2021), pp. 1-29
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Attrition from Administrative Data : Problems and Solutions with an Application to Postsecondary Education
Foote, Andrew; Stange, Kevin M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper examines the bias arising from individuals' migration from administrative outcome data, with a focus on the labor market consequences of postsecondary education. We find that out-of-state migration is particularly problematic for high-earners, flagship graduates, and certain majors....
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Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions
Arcidiacono, Peter - 2020
Detecting racial discrimination using observational data is challenging because of the presence of unobservables that … may be correlated with race. Using data made public in the SFFA v. Harvard case, we estimate discrimination in a setting …
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Asian American discrimination in Harvard admissions
Arcidiacono, Peter; Kinsler, Josh; Ransom, Tyler - In: European economic review : EER 144 (2022), pp. 1-17
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The Limits of Educational Attainment in Mitigating Occupational Segregation Between Black and White Workers
Jardina, Ashley; Blair, Peter Q.; Heck, Justin; Debroy, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
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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Statistical Discrimination and the Distribution of Wages
Bharadwaj, Prashant; Deb, Rahul; Renou, Ludovic - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
statistical discrimination. We adapt this theoretical characterization to develop a novel empirical test, the rejection of which … we interpret as evidence of taste-based discrimination. In doing so, we provide a theoretical foundation via which the …-based discrimination. We provide a proof of concept application using Census and NLSY-79 data, which suggests taste-based discrimination at …
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Race and Gender Pay Differentials
Blau, Francine D. - 1992
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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