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Endophilia or Exophobia : Beyond Discrimination

Feld, Jan - 2013

The immense literature on discrimination treats outcomes as relative: One group suffers compared to another. But does a …? This difference matters, as the relative importance of the types of discrimination and their inter-relation affect market … not contain the students' names, on average we find favoritism but no discrimination by nationality, and neither …

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Sex Discrimination by Sex : Voting in a Professional Society

Dillingham, Alan E. - 1991

Economic theories of discrimination are usually based on tastes. The huge body of empirical studies, however, considers … examines tastes for discrimination directly, or considers people's willingness to trade off other characteristics to indulge …

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Occupational Gender Composition and Wages in Canada : 1987-1988

Baker, Michael - 1999

The relationship between occupational gender composition and wages is the basis of pay equity/comparable worth legislation. A number of previous studies have examined this relationship in US data, identifying some of the determinants of low wages in ``female jobs'' well as important limitations...

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Does Comparable Worth Work in a Decentralized Labor Market?

Baker, Michael - 2000

We investigate the effect of pro-active comparable worth legislation covering both the public and private sectors on wages, the gender wage gap and the gender composition of employment. The focus is the pay equity initiative of the Canadian province of Ontario in the early 1990s. We document...

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Age, Cohort and Co-Authorship

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2015

The previously documented trend toward more co- and multi-authored research in economics is partly (perhaps 20 percent) due to different research styles of scholars in different birth cohorts (of different ages). Most of the trend reflects profession-wide changes in research style. Older...

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Cycles of Wage Discrimination

Biddle, Jeff - 2011

Using CPS data from 1979-2009 we examine how cyclical downturns and industry-specific demand shocks affect wage differentials between white non-Hispanic males and women, Hispanics and African-Americans. Women's and Hispanics' relative earnings are harmed by negative shocks, while the earnings...

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Stressed Out on Four Continents : Time Crunch or Yuppie Kvetch?

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2003

Social commentators have pointed to problems of women workers who face time stress' an absence of sufficient time to accomplish all their tasks. An economic theory views time stress as reflecting how tightly the time constraint binds households. Time stress will be more prevalent in households...

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Leaving Boys Behind : Gender Disparities in High Academic Achievement

Fortin, Nicole M. - 2013

Using three decades of data from the "Monitoring the Future" cross-sectional surveys, this paper shows that, from the 1980s to the 2000s, the mode of girls' high school GPA distribution has shifted from "B" to "A", essentially "leaving boys behind" as the mode of boys' GPA distribution stayed at...

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Not Working at Work : Loafing, Unemployment and Labor Productivity

Burda, Michael - 2016

-work time is substantial and varies positively with the local unemployment rate. While average time spent by workers in non …-work conditional on any positive amount rises with the unemployment rate, the fraction of workers reporting positive values varies pro …-work with wage rates and measures of unemployment benefits in state data linked to the ATUS, and it is consistent with estimated …

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Cyclical Variation in Labor Hours and Productivity Using the ATUS

Burda, Michael C. - 2012

We examine monthly variation in weekly work hours using data for 2003-10 from the Current Population Survey (CPS) on hours/worker, from the Current Employment Survey (CES) on hours/job, and from the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) on both. The ATUS data minimize recall difficulties and constrain...

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