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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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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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Endophilia or Exophobia: Beyond Discrimination

Hamermesh, Daniel; Feld, Jan; Salamanca, Nicolás - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

The immense literature on discrimination treats outcomes as relative: One group suffers compared to another. But does a difference arise because agents discriminate against others--are exophobic--or because they favor their own kind--are endophilic? This difference matters, as the relative...

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Did Age Discrimination Protections Help Older Workers Weather the Great Recession?

Neumark, David; Button, Patrick - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

We examine whether stronger age discrimination laws at the state level moderated the impact of the Great Recession on older workers. We use a difference-in-difference-in-differences strategy to compare older workers in states with stronger and weaker laws, to their younger counterparts, both...

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Tall or Taller, Pretty or Prettier: Is Discrimination Absolute or Relative?

Hamermesh, Daniel - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 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...

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Awareness Reduces Racial Bias

Price, Joseph; Wolfers, Justin; Pope, Devin G. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

Can raising awareness of racial bias subsequently reduce that bias? We address this question by exploiting the widespread media attention highlighting racial bias among professional basketball referees that occurred in May 2007 following the release of an academic study. Using new data, we...

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Spatial Mismatch or Racial Mismatch?

Hellerstein, Judith K.; Neumark, David; McInerney, Melissa - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

We contrast the spatial mismatch hypothesis with what we term the racial mismatch hypothesis - that the problem is not a lack of jobs, per se, where blacks live, but a lack of jobs where blacks live into which blacks are hired. We first report new evidence on the spatial mismatch hypothesis,...

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Minority Self-Employment in the United States and the Impact of Affirmative Action Programs

Blanchflower, David G. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

n this paper I examine changes in self-employment that have occurred since the early 1980s in the United States. It is a companion paper to a recent equivalent paper that related to the UK. Data on random samples of approximately twenty million US workers are examined taken from the Basic...

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Business Success and Businesses' Beauty Capital

Pfann, Gerard; Hamermesh, Daniel; Bosman, Ciska M.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1997

We examine whether a difference in pay for beauty is supported by different productivity of people according to looks. Using a sample of advertising firms, we find that those firms with better-looking executives have higher revenues and faster growth than do otherwise identical firms whose...

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