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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 unskilled and uneducated. This study finds that minority males earn higher … wages in sectors where affirmative action is prevalent, indicating that it has increased the demand for minority males. I …
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Many attempts to measure the wage effects of current labor market discrimination against minorities include controls …
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This paper attempts to test whether information problems in labor markets can explain why minority or female workers …, 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 … 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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This paper examines minority-white wage gaps. Neal and Johnson (1996) show that controlling for ability measured in the …. Their study has been faulted because minority children and their parents may have pessimistic expectations about receiving … minorities. The evidence from expectations data are mixed. Although all groups are quite optimistic about future schooling …
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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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There has been a significant correlation between United States inward foreign direct investment and the United States real exchange rate since the 1970s. Two alternative reasons for this relationship are that the real exchange rate affects the relative cost of labor and that the real exchange...
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This paper exploits a rich and largely untapped source of information on the wages and other characteristics of individual manufacturing plants to cast new light on recent changes in the United States wage structure. Our primary data source, the Longitudinal Research Datafile (LRD) , contains...
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Using the American Community Surveys of 2009 and 2010, I examine the wages of immigrants compared to natives among engineering workers. Among workers in engineering occupations, immigrants are the best and brightest thanks to their high education level, enjoying a wage distribution shifted to...
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