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The Missing Link? Using LinkedIn Data to Measure Race, Ethnic, and Gender Differences in Employment Outcomes at Individual Companies
Berry, Alexander; Maloney, Elizabeth M.; Neumark, David - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Stronger enforcement of discrimination laws can help to reduce disparities in economic outcomes with respect to race …, ethnicity, and gender in the United States. However, the data necessary to detect possible discrimination and to act to counter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014512147
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Race and Gender Pay Differentials
Blau, Francine D. - 1992
In this paper we review research findings from the 1980s and early 1990s on race and gender pay gaps. In addition. we present some evidence from the Current Population Surveys (1972, 1982 and 1989) regarding the impact of shifts in the industrial composition of employment and in interindustry...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474853
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Do Gender-Neutral Job Ads Promote Diversity? Experimental Evidence from Latin America's Tech Sector
Del Carpio, Lucía; Fujiwara, Thomas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Gendered-grammar languages like Spanish are spoken by 39% of the world's population. In a field experiment in partnership with a Spanish-speaking online platform for technology positions, ads randomly selected to use gender-neutral language receive a larger share of female applicants for...
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A Pollution Theory of Discrimination : Male and Female Differences in Occupations and Earnings
Goldin, Claudia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2002
discrimination' on the basis of men's taste for distance from women in the same way differences between other groups in work and … housing have been explained. Rather, this paper constructs a 'pollution' theory model of discrimination in which new female …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469729
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The Rising (and then Declining) Significance of Gender
Goldin, Claudia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2002
policies not to hire women in particular occupations and to exclude men from other occupations. A model of discrimination is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469799
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Gender Differences in Job Search and the Earnings Gap : Evidence from Business Majors
Cortés, Patricia; Pan, Jessica; Pilossoph, Laura; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
To understand gender differences in the job search process, we collect rich information on job offers and acceptances from past and current undergraduates of Boston University's Questrom School of Business. We document two novel empirical facts: (1) there is a clear gender difference in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012533369
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Gender Based Occupational Segregation and Sex Differences in Sensory, Motor and Spatial Aptitudes
Baker, Michael - 2016
Research on sex differences in humans documents gender differences in sensory, motor and spatial aptitudes. These aptitudes, as captured by Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT) codes, predict the occupational choices of men and women in the directions indicated by this research. We simulate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456428
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459191
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Do Male-Female Wage Differentials Reflect Differences in the Return to Skill? Cross-City Evidence From 1980-2000
Beaudry, Paul - 2012
Over the 1980s and 1990s the wage differentials between men and women (with similar observable characteristics) declined significantly. At the same time, the returns to education increased. It has been suggested that these two trends may reflect a common change in the relative price of a skill...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460502
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The Gender Gap in Earnings Losses after Job Displacement
Illing, Hannah; Schmieder, Johannes; Trenkle, Simon - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Existing research has shown that job displacement leads to large and persistent earnings losses for men, but evidence for women is scarce. Using administrative data from Germany, we apply an event study design in combination with propensity score matching and a reweighting technique to directly...
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