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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014512147
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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482025
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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
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013348871
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014337873
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474853
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Do Field Experiments on Labor and Housing Markets Overstate Discrimination? A Re-examination of the Evidence
Neumark, David - 2016
There have been over 80 field experiments on traditional dimensions of discrimination in labor and housing markets … since 2000, in 23 countries. These studies nearly always find evidence of discrimination against minorities. However, the … estimates of discrimination in these studies can be biased if there is differential variation in the unobservable determinants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456397
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How competitiveness may cause a gender wage gap : experimental evidence
Heinz, Matthias; Normann, Hans-Theo; Rau, Holger A. - In: European economic review : EER 90 (2016), pp. 336-349
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Racial Discrimination in the Labor Market : Theory and Empirics
Lang, Kevin - 2011
We review theories of race discrimination in the labor market. Taste-based models can generate wage and unemployment … existing model explains the unemployment rate differential. Models of statistical discrimination based on differential … employment and unemployment. At their current state of development, models of statistical discrimination based on rational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461208
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What Do Wage Differentials Tell Us about Labor Market Discrimination?
O'Neill, June E. - 2005
We examine the extent to which non-discriminatory factors can explain observed wage gaps between racial and ethnic minorities and whites, and between women and men. In general we find that differences in productivity-related factors account for most of the between group wage differences in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467445