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Determining the Impact of Federal Antidiscrimination Policy on the Economic Status of Blacks : a Study of South Carolina
Heckman, James J. - 2015
This paper assesses the contribution of federal antidiscrimination policy to the dramatic improvement of black economic status in manufacturing that occurred in South Carolina in the mid 1960's. Using a unique data source on wages and employment by race and sex in South Carolina we evaluate...
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A Pollution Theory of Discrimination : Male and Female Differences in Occupations and Earnings
Goldin, Claudia - 2021
discrimination' on the basis of men's taste for distance from women in the same way differences between other groups in work and … housing have been explained. Rather, this paper constructs a 'pollution' theory model of discrimination in which new female …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013218798
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Beauty and the Labor Market
Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Biddle, Jeff - 2021
We develop a theory of sorting across occupations based on looks and derive its implications for testing for the source of earnings differentials related to looks. These differentials are examined using the 1977 Quality of Employment, the 1971 Quality of American Life, and the 1981 Canadian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013229123
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Discrimination as a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy : Evidence from French Grocery Stores
Glover, Dylan - 2016
Examining the performance of cashiers in a French grocery store chain, we find that manager bias negatively affects minority job performance. In the stores studied, cashiers work with different managers on different days and their schedules are determined quasi-randomly. When minority cashiers,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012980186
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Information Technology and Research and Development Impacts on Productivity and Skills : Looking for Correlations on French Firm Level Data
Mairesse, Jacques; Greenan, Nathalie; Topiol-Bensaid, Agnes - 2021
The main objective of the study is descriptive. We set out to explore the (cor)relations between five IT and R&D indicators and measures of labor and total factor productivity, average wage and skill composition, on four panel data samples of French manufacturing and services firms over the two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013218307
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The Earnings of Linguistic Minorities : French in Canada and Spanish in the United States
Bloom, David E.; Grenier, Gilles - 2021
This paper measures and compares the relative earnings of French and English speakers in Canada, and of Spanish and English speakers in the U.S., in the 1970s and 1980s. In Canada, the earnings gap between French and English speakers narrowed over time, especially in Quebec. This decline appears...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013220946
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The March of the Techies : Technology, Trade, and Job Polarization in France, 1994-2007
Harrigan, James - 2016
market in France has polarized: employment shares of high and low wage occupations have grown, while middle wage occupations … conclude that technological change, mediated through techies, is an important cause of polarization in France. Firm-level trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012995986
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Changes in the Relative Structure of Wages and Employment : A Comparison of the United States, Canada, and France
Card, David - 2010
, Canada, and France. We argue that the same forces that led to falling real wages for less-skilled workers in the U ….S. affected similar workers in Canada and France. Consistent with the view that labor market institutions are more rigid in France … somewhat less in Canada, and did not fall at all in France. Contrary to expectations, however, we find little evidence that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141509
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Tall or Taller, Pretty or Prettier : Is Discrimination Absolute or Relative?
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2012
Using several microeconomic data sets from the United States and the Netherlands, and the examples of height and beauty, this study examines whether: 1) Absolute or relative differences in a characteristic are what affect labor-market and other outcomes; and 2) The effects of a characteristic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013105730
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Gender Differences in Bargaining Outcomes : A Field Experiment on Discrimination
Castillo, Marco - 2012
. These differentials are consistent with both statistical and taste-based discrimination. To identify the source of the … eliminates gender differences and the response is shown only to be consistent with statistical discrimination. Our study secures …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106212