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We estimate models of earnings and employment outcomes for a sample of white and non-white male immigrants drawn from …
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similar to the terrorists. We find a 10 percentage point decrease in the employment of very young Muslim men relative to non …-Muslim immigrants after the London bombings. The drop in employment is accompanied by consistent declines in real earnings and hours … worked. A weak association between the 9-11 terrorist attacks and a drop in the employment of very young male immigrants from …
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The world's biggest and arguably most aggressive form of employment based affirmative action policy for minorities … exists in India. This paper exploits the institutional features of federally mandated employment quota policy to examine its … effect on labor market outcomes of two distinct minority groups. My main finding is that employment quota significantly in …
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indicate that substantial differences in both the likelihood of employment and levels of earnings exist, despite several years …? for disability is greater for women than for men. Using the Baldwin and Johnson (1992) methodology, we find the employment …
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respondent on employment probability and labor income of men and women. In addition to mean linear and non-linear effects on …
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We compare alternative methods for estimating immigrant wage and employment assimilation using unique panel data over …-effects model generates estimated employment assimilation profiles that are flatter and significantly different to those produced by …
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We present a theoretical explanation of the gender wage gap which turns on the interaction between men and women in households. In equilibria where men are over-represented in fulltime work, we show that firms rationally choose to hire women only at strictly lower wages than men. The model...
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Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, this paper examines the role of gender in the promotion process and the importance of promotions in the relative labor market outcomes of young men and women in their early careers. Specifically, how do the factors related to promotion...
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We address the bias from using potential vs. actual experience in earnings models. Statistical tests reject the classical errors-in-variable framework. The nature of the measurement error is best viewed as a model misspecification problem. We correct for this by modeling actual experience as a...
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Gender wage differentials, conditional on observed productivity characteristics, have been considered a possible indication of prejudice against women in the labor market. However, there is no conclusive evidence on whether these differentials are due to labor market discrimination or to...
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