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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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A Tractable Income Process for Business Cycle Analysis

Guvenen, Fatih; McKay, Alisdair; Ryan, Conor B. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We estimate an income process that is consistent with key facts on individual income risk and its variation over the business cycle. In particular, the estimated process generates income fluctuations that display (i) flat and acyclical variance, (ii) volatile and procyclical skewness, (iii) very...

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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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The Glass Ceiling and The Paper Floor : Gender Differences among Top Earners, 1981-2012

Guvenen, Fatih - 2014

We analyze changes in the gender structure at the top of the earnings distribution in the United States over the last 30 years using a 10% sample of individual earnings histories from the Social Security Administration. Despite making large inroads, females still constitute a small proportion of...

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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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Worker Betas : Five Facts about Systematic Earnings Risk

Guvenen, Fatih - 2017

The magnitude of and heterogeneity in systematic earnings risk has important implications for various theories in macro, labor, and financial economics. Using administrative data, we document how the aggregate risk exposure of individual earnings to GDP and stock returns varies across gender,...

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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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