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Do income disparities between men and women translate into longer term wealth disparities? We use the Survey of Income … and Program Participation (SIPP) to investigate gender and race disparities in home ownership, value, and equity. These … value or home equity. Once households have entered the housing market, differences across gender, race and family type are …
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possibility among women and investigate if race/ethnicity and birthplace still have a role to play in the decision to use welfare … even after controlling for income, health and other demographic factors like employment. We find that race does not matter …
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The Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique is widely used to identify and quantify the separate contributions of group differences in measurable characteristics, such as education, experience, marital status, and geographical differences to racial and gender gaps in outcomes. The technique...
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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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Do income disparities between men and women translate into longer term wealth disparities? We use the Survey of Income … and Program Participation (SIPP) to investigate gender and race disparities in home ownership, value, and equity. These … value or home equity. Once households have entered the housing market, differences across gender, race and family type are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822531
the umpire and pitcher match race/ethnicity. This effect only exists where there is little scrutiny of umpires' behavior … cannot determine the outcome of the at-bat. If a pitcher shares the home-plate umpire's race/ethnicity, he gives up fewer …
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We investigate the relative significance of differences in cognitive skills and discrimination in explaining racial/ethnic wage gaps. We show that cognitive test scores taken prior to entering the labor market are influenced by schooling. Adjusting the scores for racial/ethnic differences in...
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scaffolding erected many years earlier. Using a novel within race decomposition we provide evidence that past institutions …
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components of ethnicity -country of birth, race, skin color, language, and religion - among persons admitted to legal permanent …
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importance of network effects for groups broken out by race, ethnicity, and various measures of skill, for networks generated by … and the less-skilled, especially among Hispanics, and that labor market networks appear to be race-based. …
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