entrants begin with little or no gender differences in earnings, but a wage gap gradually emerges over time closer to the …

This paper attempts to establish empirically whether natives' job satisfaction is adversely affected by having minority … satisfaction. Measuring minority co-worker status at the workplace- and occupation-level and employing alternative econometric … estimators; the paper finds that on average natives' experience a reduction in job satisfaction due to having minority co …

, on average, women have lower education attainment than men but this educational disparity is masked among the sample of … other characteristics, tends to fully offset the gender wage gap. Not surprisingly, the returns to women's education among … women.When the analysis controls for sample selection bias and heterogeneity, the returns to women's education rise …

This paper examines the effect of minimum wage increases on the self-reported health of teenage workers. We use a …/ethnicity and gender to uncover the differential effects of changes in the minimum wage on health. We find that white women are more … likely to report better health with a minimum wage increase while Hispanic men report worse health …