eroded, and the gender happiness gap has disappeared entirely. Paralleling changes in the income distribution, differences in …

Blau and Kahn (JOLE, 1997; ILRR, 2006) decomposed trends in the U.S. gender earnings gap into observable and … strong trend of changing gender composition of household-representative respondents toward more females. Second, we estimate … the impact of the changing gender composition on Blau and Kahn's decomposition. We find that a non-ignorable portion of …

speculation that a gender difference in competitiveness contributes to the gender wage gap. Using data from the NLSY79 and NLSY97 …, we show that women are less likely to be employed in jobs using competitive compensation. The portion of the gender wage … gap explained by gender segregation in compensation schemes is small in the NLSY79 but somewhat larger in the NLSY97 …

, the largest factor was that the "unexplained" gender wage gap fell much faster in the 1980s than the 1990s. Our evidence … suggests that changes in labor force selectivity, changes in gender differences in unmeasured characteristics and in labor … convergence of the unexplained gender pay gap …

-2002 and could the inclusion of the White immigrant population be driving this result? Second, do within race differences in … race and cohort differences exist in the Black-White self-employment gap. A subgroup of U.S. born African-Americans have a …

-wage compensation across race groups. Our results show that African American men on average are significantly less likely to receive …

factors in income differences - race and gender - that contribute to income inequality within the population of blacks and … inequality associated with gender exceeds greatly that of race. While gender income inequality falls over time, income inequality … defined by the Gini index varies from 1% to 4% depending on the geographical administrative divisions used. Race tends to …

satisfaction differs by race or ethnicity. We use data from the 2010 National Survey of College Graduates to examine the relation … between job satisfaction and race and ethnicity among Asian, black, Hispanic/Latino, and white workers. Overall job …

achievement level lead us to explore in this paper whether the increased immigration has differential effects by gender and race …