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This paper analyzes a sorting model of labor contracts when workers have private information about their own productivities, and firms can test (monitor) workers. We show that sorting considerations alone generate steep wage-tenure profiles, high turnover rates of newly hired workers, and...
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This paper reviews some recent empirical analyses of the impact of affirmative action and anti-discrimination law on … seems more compatible with an earnings redistribution rather than an anti-discrimination program. 4)While many of the …
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discrimination than do nonunion plants against black or Hispanic men, or against black or white women, despite ther ecessions of the …
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always reach the same dead-end: residual differences across race or gender are due either to discrimination or to unobserved … litigation has had some success in fighting racial discrimination. Direct tests of the impact of Title VII litigation and …
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We introduce a model of two-sided statistical discrimination in which worker and firm beliefs are complementary. Firms … both empirical analysis designed to detect discrimination and policy meant to alleviate it. Affirmative action is much less … effective than in traditional statistical discrimination models. More generally, we demonstrate the futility of one …
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mobility which has strong parallels with the theory of progressive taxation. We characterize opportunity--equalizing mobility …
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differences. We argue that monopsonistic discrimination may be a substantial factor behind the overall gender wage gap, in …
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This chapter surveys the theoretical literature on statistical discrimination and affirmative action. This literature …
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The cost of financial intermediation has declined in recent years thanks to technological progress and increased competition. I document this fact and I analyze two features of new financial technologies that have stirred controversy: returns to scale, and the use of big data and machine...
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Discrimination has been widely studied in the social sciences. Economists often categorize the source of discrimination … inaccurate statistical discrimination generates an identification problem for attempts to isolate the source of differential … of discrimination—to formally outline the identification problem: when not accounted for, inaccurate statistical …
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