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Measuring Bias in Consumer Lending
Dobbie, Will - 2018
This paper tests for bias in consumer lending decisions using administrative data from a high-cost lender in the United Kingdom. We motivate our analysis using a simple model of bias in lending, which predicts that profits should be identical for loan applicants from different groups at the...
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One Cohort at a Time : A New Perspective on the Declining Gender Pay Gap
Arellano-Bover, Jaime; Bianchi, Nicola; Lattanzio, Salvatore - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper studies the interaction between the decrease in the gender pay gap and the stagnation in the careers of younger workers, analyzing data from the United States, Italy, Canada, and the United Kingdom. We propose a model of the labor market in which a larger supply of older workers can...
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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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Labour Market Reforms and Changes in Wage Inequality in the United Kingdom and the United States
Gosling, Amanda - 2001
This paper compares trends in male and female hourly wage inequality in the United Kingdom and the United States between 1979 and 1998. Our main finding is that the extent and pattern of wage inequality became increasingly similar in the two countries during this period. We attribute this...
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Gender and Youth Employment Outcomes : The US and West Germany, 1984-91
Blau, Francine D. - 1997
This paper examines gender differences in labor market outcomes for hard-to-employ youth in the US and West Germany during the 1984-91 period. We find that young, less educated American men and especially women are far less likely to be employed than their German counterparts. Moreover, less...
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The Gender Earnings Gap in the Gig Economy : Evidence from over a Million Rideshare Drivers
Cook, Cody - 2018
discrimination. Our results suggest that there is no reason to expect the "gig" economy to close gender differences. Even in the … absence of discrimination and in flexible labor markets, women's relatively high opportunity cost of non-paid-work time and …
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Immigration, Human Capital Formation and Endogenous Economic Growth
Ehrlich, Isaac - 2015
Census data from international sources covering 77% of the world's migrant population indicate that the skill composition of migrants in major destination countries, including the US, has been rising over the last 4 decades. Moreover, the population share of skilled migrants has been approaching...
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Immigration, Trade and Productivity in Services : Evidence from U.K. Firms
Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P. - 2015
This paper explores the impact of immigrants on the imports, exports and productivity of service-producing firms in the … U.K. Immigrants may substitute for imported intermediate inputs (offshore production) and they may impact the … the third as the effect of immigrants on specific bilateral trade costs. We test the predictions of our model using …
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Global Trends in Income Inequality and Income Dynamics : New Insights from GRID
Guvenen, Fatih; Pistaferri, Luigi; Violante, Giovanni L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
range of micro statistics on income inequality, dynamics, and mobility. It has four key characteristics: it is built on …
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The Quality of Lower-Track Education : Evidence from Britain
Clark, Damon - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
For much of the 20th century, British students were tracked into higher-track (for the "top" 20%) or lower-track (for the rest) secondary schools. Opponents of tracking contend that the lower-track schools in these systems will inevitably provide low-quality education. In this paper I examine...
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