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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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are related to labor market success, including race, gender, parental background, education, test scores, and variables …
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Although there is an extensive literature on the determinants of child labor and many initiatives aimed at combating it, there is limited evidence on the consequences of child labor on socio-economic outcomes such as education, wages, and health. We evaluate the causal effect of child labor...
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In 2011, a reform in the United Arab Emirates allowed any employer to renew a migrant's visa upon contract expiration without written permission from the initial employer. We find that the reform increased incumbent migrants' earnings and firm retention of these workers. This occurs despite an...
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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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consistent with a search-matching model in which employers statistically discriminate on the basis of race when hiring unemployed …
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We present evidence on changes in workplace segregation by education, race, ethnicity, and sex, from 1990 to 2000. The … find no evidence of declines in workplace segregation by race and ethnicity; indeed, black-white segregation increased …
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crews to basketball games, and the number of repeated interactions allow us to convincingly test for own-race preferences … fouls are called against players when they are officiated by an opposite-race refereeing crew than when officiated by an own-race …
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There are large and important differences between blacks and whites in nearly every facet of life - earnings, unemployment, incarceration, health, and so on. This chapter contains three themes. First, relative to the 20th century, the significance of discrimination as an explanation for racial...
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disproportionately among workers of the same race. We find that, holding constant the composition of teammates on the floor, basketball … players are no more likely to complete an assist to a player of the same race than a player of a different race. Our … confidence interval allows us to reject even small amounts of same-race bias in passing patterns. Our findings suggest that high …
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