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Wages, Productivity, and Worker Characteristics: Evidence from Plant-Level Production Functions and Wage Equations

Hellerstein, Judith K.; Neumark, David; Troske, Kenneth R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1996

We use a unique new data set that combines individual worker data with data on workers' employers to estimate plant-level production functions and wage equations, and thus to compare relative marginal products and relative wages for various groups of workers. The data and empirical framework...

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A Community College Instructor Like Me: Race and Ethnicity Interactions in the Classroom

Fairlie, Robert W.; Oreopoulos, Philip; Hoffmann, Florian - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

Detailed administrative data from a large and diverse community college are used to examine if academic performance depends on whether students are the same race or ethnicity as their instructors. To identify racial interactions and address many threats to internal validity we estimate models...

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Trends in Occupational Segregation by Gender 1970-2009: Adjusting for the Impact of Changes in the Occupational Coding System

Blau, Francine; Liu, Albert Yung-Hsu; Brummund, Peter - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

in occupational segregation by sex for the 1970-2009 period based on a consistent set of occupational codes and data … sources. We show that our gender-specific crosswalk more accurately captures the trends in occupational segregation that are … the 2000 occupational codes, we find that segregation by sex declined over the period but at a diminished pace over the …

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A Citation-Based Test for Discrimination at Economics and Finance Journals

Waldfogel, Joel; Smart, Scott - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1996

Discrimination is notoriously difficult to document. Convincing tests for discrimination require good measures of the legitimate determinants of the outcome of interest, for example wages and productivity. While few contexts provide data adequate to the task of measuring discrimination, copious...

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Mentoring and Diversity

Athey, Susan; Avery, Christopher N.; Zemsky, Peter - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1998

This paper studies the forces which determine how diversity at a firm evolves over time. We consider a dynamic model o a single firm with two levels of employees, the entry level and the upper level. In each period, the firm selects a subset of the entry-level workers for promotion to the upper...

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Effect of Employer Access to Criminal History Data on the Labor Market Outcomes of Ex-Offenders and Non-Offenders

Finlay, Keith - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

Since 1997, states have begun to make criminal history records publicly available over the Internet. This paper exploits this previously unexamined variation to identify the effect of expanded employer access to criminal history data on the labor market outcomes of ex-offenders and...

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Testing Theories of Discrimination: Evidence from "Weakest Link"

Levitt, Steven - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2003

In most settings, it is difficult to measure discrimination, and even more challenging to distinguish between competing theories of discrimination (taste-based versus information-based). Using contestant voting behavior on the television game show Weakest Link, one can in principle empirically...

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Age Discrimination, Job Separation, and Employment Status of Older Workers: Evidence from Self-Reports

Johnson, Richard W.; Neumark, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1996

This paper explores the prevalence and consequences of age discrimination in the workplace by analyzing self-reports of discrimination by respondents in the National Longitudinal Survey of Older Men. Age discrimination was reported in seven percent of our cases, during the period 1966-1980....

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Race, Segregation, and Postal Employment: New Evidence on Spatial Mismatch

Margo, Robert Andrew; Boustan, Leah Platt - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

relationship between black postal employment and segregation has declined, suggesting that spatial mismatch has become less …

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Are Emily and Greg More Employable than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination

Bertrand, Marianne; Mullainathan, Sendhil - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2003

We perform a field experiment to measure racial discrimination in the labor market. We respond with fictitious resumes to help-wanted ads in Boston and Chicago newspapers. To manipulate perception of race, each resume is assigned either a very African American sounding name or a very White...

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