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Racial Differences in Fringe Benefits and Compensation
Mok, Wallace - 2009
-wage compensation across race groups. Our results show that African American men on average are significantly less likely to receive …
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Women's Age at First Marriage and Marital Instability in the United States : Differences by Race and Ethnicity
Lehrer, Evelyn L. - 2017
differences by race/ethnicity have not been examined. We use data from the 2006-2010 National Survey of Family Growth to examine … differences by race/ethnicity in the shape of the curve relating women's age at entry into first marriage to marital instability … other – can lead to misleading conclusions. Our findings underscore the desirability of conducting separate analyses by race …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013057458
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Spatial-Ethnic Inequalities : The Role of Location in the Estimation of Ethnic Wage Differentials
Longhi, Simonetta - 2017
Analyses of ethnic and racial wage differentials neglect the fact that minorities cluster in urban and in more deprived areas. This paper estimates ethnic wage differentials by comparing minorities to the majority in the same local labour market and therefore facing similar socio-economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012945238
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Accounting for Firms in Ethnicity Wage Gaps Throughout the Earnings Distribution
Phan, Van; Singleton, Carl; Bryson, Alex; Forth, John; … - 2022
Ethnicity wage gaps in Great Britain are large and have persisted over time. Previous studies of these gaps have been almost exclusively confined to analyses of household data, so they could not account for the role played by individual employers, despite growing evidence of their wage-setting...
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Immigrant Heterogeneity and the Earnings Distribution in the United Kingdom and United States : New Evidence from a Panel Data Quantile Regression Analysis
Billger, Sherrilyn M. - 2010
In this paper we use a relatively new panel data quantile regression technique to examine native-immigrant earnings differentials 1) throughout the conditional wage distribution, and 2) controlling for individual heterogeneity. No previous papers have simultaneously considered these factors. We...
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Polarization and Rising Wage Inequality : Comparing the U.S. And Germany
Antonczyk, Dirk - 2010
This paper compares trends in wage inequality in the U.S. and Germany using an approach developed by MaCurdy and Mroz (1995) to separate age, time, and cohort effects. Between 1979 and 2004, wage inequality increased strongly in both the U.S. and Germany but there were various country specific...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013146175
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Apply Yourself : Racial and Ethnic Differences in College Application
Black, Sandra E. - 2015
than just matching their academic ability to the institution, and prefer institutions with a large proportion of same race … students and campuses where same race students from their high school have been successful in the past …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016328
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Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Use of Drug Therapy
Bowblis, John - 2010
The purpose of this research is to explain the variation in the utilization of drug therapy for the medical conditions of depression, high cholesterol, and hypertension between Hispanics, non-Hispanic blacks, and non-Hispanics whites using Oaxaca-type decomposition analysis based on logit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013145192
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Race, Ethnicity and the Dynamics of Health Insurance Coverage
Fairlie, Robert W.; London, Rebecca A. - 2021
Using matched data from the 1996 to 2004 Current Population Survey (CPS), we examine racial patterns in annual transitions into and out of health insurance coverage. We first decompose racial differences in static health insurance coverage rates into group differences in transition rates into...
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