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Using a representative longitudinal survey of U.S. teenagers, we investigate how peer racial composition in high school affects individual turnout of young adults. We exploit across-cohort, within-school differences in peer racial composition. One within-school standard deviation increase in the...
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-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 …
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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...
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We investigate the extent and underlying mechanisms of how race beliefs associated with applicants' names affect hiring … lower levels of education, productivity and noncognitive skills. Notably, this race penalty persists when considering only … variation in race perception for the same name and when omitting distinctly Black names. Conducting an incentivized hiring …
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According to Becker's (1957) theory of taste-based employer discrimination, pure economic rents are necessary for discrimination to be observed in the labor market. Increased competition and reduced rents in the market for final goods should therefore lead to reduced labor market discrimination....
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The study examines whether age intersects with gender and race during the initial stage of the hiring process and …
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In this paper I demonstrate, both theoretically and empirically, that the interpretation of regression estimates of between-group differences in economic outcomes depends on the relative sizes of subpopulations under study. When the disadvantaged group is small, regression estimates are similar...
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achievement level lead us to explore in this paper whether the increased immigration has differential effects by gender and race …
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Past studies have tested the claim that blacks are the last hired during periods of economic growth and the first fired in recessions by examining the movement of relative unemployment rates over the business cycle. Any conclusion drawn from this type of analysis must be viewed as tentative...
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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 …
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