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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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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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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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The Effect of Mandated Child Care on Female Wages in Chile

Prada, María F.; Rucci, Graciana; Urzúa, Sergio S. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

This paper studies the effect of mandated employer-provided child care on the wages of women hired in large firms in Chile. We use a unique employer-employee database from the country's unemployment insurance (UI) system containing monthly information for all individuals that started a new...

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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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Will Job Testing Harm Minority Workers?

Autor, David; Scarborough, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004

Because minorities typically fare poorly on standardized tests, job testing is thought to pose an equity-efficiency trade-off: testing improves selection but reduces minority hiring. We develop a conceptual framework to assess when this tradeoff is likely to apply and evaluate the evidence for...

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Toward an Understanding of Why People Discriminate: Evidence from a Series of Natural Field Experiments

list, john; Price, Michael K.; Gneezy, Uri - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

Social scientists have presented evidence that suggests discrimination is ubiquitous: women, nonwhites, and the elderly have been found to be the target of discriminatory behavior across several labor and product markets. Scholars have been less successful at pinpointing the underlying motives...

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