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Are Referees and Editors in Economics Gender Neutral?

Card, David - 2019

We study the role of gender in the evaluation of economic research using submissions to four leading journals. We find that referee gender has no effect on the relative assessment of female- versus male-authored papers, suggesting that any differential biases of male referees are negligible. To...

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Inequality at Work : The Effect of Peer Salaries on Job Satisfaction

Card, David - 2010

We use a simple theoretical framework and a randomized manipulation of access to information on peers' wages to provide new evidence on the effects of relative pay on individual job satisfaction and job search intentions. A randomly chosen subset of employees of the University of California (UC)...

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Assortative Matching or Exclusionary Hiring? The Impact of Firm Policies on Racial Wage Differences in Brazil

Gerard, François - 2018

A growing body of research shows that firms' employment and wage-setting policies contribute to wage inequality and pay disparities between groups. We measure the effects of these policies on racial pay differences in Brazil. We find that nonwhites are less likely to work at establishments that...

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Unions and Wage Inequality : The Roles of Gender, Skill and Public Sector Employment

Card, David - 2018

We examine the changing relationship between unionization and wage inequality in Canada and the United States. Our study is motivated by profound recent changes in the composition of the unionized workforce. Historically, union jobs were concentrated among low-skilled men in private sector...

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Changing Wage Structure and Black-White Differentials Among Men and Women : A Longitudinal Analysis

Card, David - 1994

differences between black and white workers. Do the differences reflect productivity differences, discrimination, or both? If …

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Is the New Immigration Really So Bad?

Card, David - 2005

the labor market opportunities of less-skilled natives? (2) Have immigrants who arrived after the 1965 Immigration Reform … from immigration and the rise of other education-related wage gaps. Overall, evidence that immigrants have harmed the … immigrants is a key yardstick. By this metric, post-1965 immigrants are doing reasonably well: second generation sons and …

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The Effect of Firm-Level Contracts on the Structure of Wages : Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data

Card, David - 2005

In many European countries sectoral bargaining agreements are automatically extended to cover all firms in an industry. Employers and employees can also negotiate firm-specific contracts. We use a large matched employer-employee data set from Spain to study the effects of firm-level contracting...

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Workplace Heterogeneity and the Rise of West German Wage Inequality

Card, David - 2012

We study the role of establishment-specific wage premiums in generating recent increases in West German wage inequality. Models with additive fixed effects for workers and establishments are fit in four distinct time intervals spanning the period 1985-2009. Unlike standard wage models,...

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Unemployment Insurance Taxes and the Cyclical and Seasonal Properties of Unemployment

Card, David - 1992

Unemployment Insurance system to measure the effects of imperfect experience-rating on temporary layoffs and other types of … unemployment. We find a strong negative association between the degree of experience-rating and the rate of temporary layoff … unemployment, with the largest effect in recessionary years and the smallest effect in expansionary years. Increases in the degree …

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Regression Kink Design : Theory and Practice

Card, David - 2016

unemployment benefits on the duration of joblessness in Austria, and discuss implementation issues that may arise in similar …

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