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Why is Poverty so High Among Afro-Brazilians? A Decomposition Analysis of the Racial Poverty Gap
Gradín, Carlos - 2021
This study aimed to identify the major factors underlying the large discrepancy in poverty levels between two Brazilian … these characteristics differentially impact on the risk of poverty in each group. A detailed decomposition of both effects … explains a large part of the discrepancy in poverty levels, with education and labor variables of household members explaining …
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Wage Differentials, Discrimination and Inequality : A Cautionary Note on the Juhn, Murphy and Pierce Decomposition Method
Yun, Myeong-Su - 2007
This paper shows how difficult it is to study the roles of discrimination and unobserved skills when studying changes in racial and gender wage gaps over time by examining merits and shortcomings of a popular decomposition method by Juhn, Murphy and Pierce (1991). The JMP method shows that wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012776381
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Foreign Direct Investment, Black Economic Empowerment and Labour Productivity in South Africa
Mebratie, Anagaw Derseh - 2011
The impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on domestically owned firms in developing countries has been widely debated in the literature. It has been argued that FDI provides access to advanced technologies and other intangible assets which may spill over to the host country and allow...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119015
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An Anatomy of Racial and Ethnic Trends in Male Earnings
Winters, John V. - 2012
Progress in narrowing black-white earnings differences has been far from continuous, with some of the apparent progress resulting from labor force withdrawal among lower-skilled African Americans. This paper builds on prior research and documents racial and ethnic differences in male earnings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099738
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De Jure and De Facto Determinants of Power : Evidence from Mississippi
Bertocchi, Graziella - 2012
We evaluate the empirical relevance of de facto vs. de jure determinants of political power in the U.S. South between the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century. We apply a variety of estimation techniques to a previously unexploited dataset on voter registration by...
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Racial and Ethnic Inequality in Employer Provided Fringe Benefits
Mok, Wallace - 2012
We examine racial and ethnic inequality in offers of employer provided fringe benefits (health insurance, life insurance and pension). Restricting to full-time workers in the private sector, we find that African Americans are significantly less likely to get fringe benefit offers than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013112770
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Racial Differences in Fringe Benefits and Compensation
Mok, Wallace - 2009
This paper examines differences in two important components of non-wage compensation, employer provided health insurance and pensions, across African Americans and the whites in the United States. Using data from the Current Population Survey (CPS) and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155559
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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 where this concern is mitigated. Namely, we show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012835875
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The Racial Test Score Gap and Parental Involvement in Britain
Patacchini, Eleonora - 2007
We investigate the racial gap in test scores between black and white students in Britain both in levels and differences across the school years. We find that there is an increasing racial gap in test scores between ages 7 and 11, and a decreasing one between ages 11 and 16. Using the richness of...
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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