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anticipate considerably lower earnings in subsequent years, even under the assumption of continuous employment after leaving …
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absolute terms, correcting for purchasing power. The relatively high employment rates of less educated German youth combined …-German difference in employment rates …
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and nonunion workers. It also presents estimates of union effects on employment for these groups, as well as their union … employment are negative for both groups and especially for blacks. As for the relative access to unionized employment, young … suggest that increasing the access of young blacks to unionized employment would improve their positions in the labor market …
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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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Many attempts to measure the wage effects of current labor market discrimination against minorities include controls for worker productivity that (1) could themselves be affected by market discrimination and (2) are very imprecise measures of worker skill. The resulting estimates of residual...
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, current performance, and race and sex is studied. OLS regressions of starting wages on current performance--which is measured … some time after the beginning of employment--indicate that minority workers are paid lower starting wages than white …
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In this paper we review research findings from the 1980s and early 1990s on race and gender pay gaps. In addition. we … industrial composition of employment and in interindustry wage differentials on these gaps. The gender gap in pay was stable in … our review. Existing studies suggest that changes in wage structure. changing relative skill levels by race and sex. and …
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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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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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