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-establishment cells. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first paper to examine segregation by race and ethnicity at the level of …
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factors and environments in explaining both cognitive and noncognitive ability differentials by ethnicity and race. Policies …
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Critics have said that affirmative action is at best ineffective and at worst counterproductive. In particular, it has been argued that if affirmative action helps anybody, it helps only the highly educated cream of the minority population, and may perversely work to the detriment of the...
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This paper notes a potential problem in the method of Blinder and Oaxaca the most popular method in the literature for decomposing the mean difference between groups of a given variable into the portion attributable to differences in the distribution of some explanatory variables and differences...
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complementary with other skilled workers than with unskilled workers%u2013and by race and ethnicity, using simulation methods to … of education- and language-related skill differentials in generating workplace segregation by race and ethnicity, as … skill is often correlated with race and ethnicity. Finally, we attempt to distinguish between segregation by skill based on …
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This paper presents income shares, income inequality, and income immobility measures for all race and ethnic groups in … the United States using the universe of U.S. tax returns matched at the individual level to U.S. Census race data for 2000 …–2014. Whites and Asians have a disproportionately large share of income in top quantiles. Income for most race groups ranges …
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Over the past thirty years, immigration has increased, immigrant characteristics have changed, and the relative mean wages of immigrants vis ... vis the native born have declined. Using data from four U.S. Censuses (1960 - 1990) we examine changes in the wage structure and their role in...
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This paper looks at the fertility and mortality experience of racial and ethnic groups in the United States from the early 20th century to the present. The first part consist of a description and critique of the racial and ethnic categories used in the federal census and in the published vital...
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Using panel data on individual labor income histories from 1957 to 2013, we document two empirical facts about the distribution of lifetime income in the United States. First, from the cohort that entered the labor market in 1967 to the cohort that entered in 1983, median lifetime income of men...
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In recent decades, the US wage structure has been transformed by a rising college premium, a narrowing gender gap, and increasing persistent and transitory residual wage dispersion. This paper explores the implications of these changes for cross-sectional inequality in hours worked, earnings and...
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