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and improves his team's chance of winning. The results suggest that standard measures of salary discrimination that adjust …
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This paper studies the links between income, sexual behavior and reported happiness. It uses recent data on a random …. Greater income does not buy more sex, nor more sexual partners. The typical American has sexual intercourse 2-3 times a month … partners. Homosexuality has no statistically significant effect on happiness. Our conclusions are based on pooled cross …
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significant fraction of the male-female absenteeism gap. To investigate the effect of absenteeism on earnings, we use a simple … that the relationship between earnings and absenteeism is more negative for males than for females. Furthermore, this … earnings cost for women associated with menstruation. We find that higher absenteeism induced by the 28-day cycle explains 11 …
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We use a simple theoretical framework and a randomized manipulation of access to information on peers' wages to provide new evidence on the effects of relative pay on individual job satisfaction and job search intentions. A randomly chosen subset of employees of the University of California (UC)...
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The extent to which discrimination can explain racial wage gaps is one of the most divisive subjects in the social …, provides a lower bound on the extent of discrimination in the labor market. Taken at face value, our estimates imply that … workers, but learn about their marginal product over time. However, we cannot rule out other forms of discrimination …
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We review theories of race discrimination in the labor market. Taste-based models can generate wage and unemployment … existing model explains the unemployment rate differential. Models of statistical discrimination based on differential … employment and unemployment. At their current state of development, models of statistical discrimination based on rational …
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The immense literature on discrimination treats outcomes as relative: One group suffers compared to another. But does a …? This difference matters, as the relative importance of the types of discrimination and their inter-relation affect market … not contain the students' names, on average we find favoritism but no discrimination by nationality, and neither …
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experimental evidence strongly suggests that discrimination cannot be discounted. Psychological attributes or noncognitive skills …
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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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We document two empirical phenomena. First, the observational wage returns to hours worked within occupation is small, and even negative in some specifications. Second, the wage return to average hours worked across occupations is large. We develop a conceptual framework that reconciles these...
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