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A central issue in estimating the employment effects of minimum wages is the appropriate comparison group for states (or other regions) that adopt or increase the minimum wage. In recent research, Dube et al. (2010) and Allegretto et al. (2011) argue that past U.S. research is flawed because it...
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We develop an equilibrium lifecycle model of education, marriage and labor supply and consumption in a transferable utility context. Individuals start by choosing their investments in education anticipating returns in the marriage market and the labor market. They then match based on the...
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workers with the same eventual performance, among both men and women. This may reflect taste discrimination. However, if … evidence for both men and women that statistical discrimination is partly to blame for these differences in starting wages … between minority and white workers, although the evidence is not very strong statistically. Average performance of women is if …
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Hispanics hired under Affirmative Action, but not among white women. Further, our results show little evidence of substantially …
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strongest finding is that among plants with high levels of product market power, those that employ relatively more women are …
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We ask whether women's decisions to be in the labor force may be affected by the decisions of other women in ways not … concerns into women's (or families') utility functions. In this model, the entry of some women into paid employment can spur … the entry of other women, independently of wage and income effects. This mechanism may help to explain why, over some …
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We present evidence on changes in workplace segregation by education, race, ethnicity, and sex, from 1990 to 2000. The evidence indicates that racial and ethnic segregation at the workplace level remained quite pervasive in 2000. At the same time, there was fairly substantial segregation by...
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We examine the possible sources of the larger racial and ethnic wage gaps for men than for women in the U …, industries, and regions, we examine whether these wage differences can be accounted for by differences between men and women in … women and white women accounts for essentially all of the higher Hispanic-white wage gap for men. In addition, our estimates …
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credentials or performance of women and minorities hired. When it is also used in hiring, it yields female and minority employees …-qualified or less-productive women and minorities. …
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regarding the existence and extent of labor market discrimination against women and minorities, although views may often … conflict, and a less extensive but also well-known literature on the effects of Affirmative Action on the employment of women …
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