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-establishment cells. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first paper to examine segregation by race and ethnicity at the level of …
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Critics have said that affirmative action is at best ineffective and at worst counterproductive. In particular, it has been argued that if affirmative action helps anybody, it helps only the highly educated cream of the minority population, and may perversely work to the detriment of the...
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factors and environments in explaining both cognitive and noncognitive ability differentials by ethnicity and race. Policies …
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This paper notes a potential problem in the method of Blinder and Oaxaca the most popular method in the literature for decomposing the mean difference between groups of a given variable into the portion attributable to differences in the distribution of some explanatory variables and differences...
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, current performance, and race and sex is studied. OLS regressions of starting wages on current performance--which is measured …
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Many attempts to measure the wage effects of current labor market discrimination against minorities include controls for worker productivity that (1) could themselves be affected by market discrimination and (2) are very imprecise measures of worker skill. The resulting estimates of residual...
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In this paper we review research findings from the 1980s and early 1990s on race and gender pay gaps. In addition. we … our review. Existing studies suggest that changes in wage structure. changing relative skill levels by race and sex. and …
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by race and ethnicity, using granular statistics describing income distributions, income mobility, and conditional income …
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United Kingdom and Canada: both countries experienced similar slowdowns in the rate of growth of educational attainment …
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, from other jurisdictions. This omission is particularly disturbing in the case of Canada, which now has some of the most … occupational gender segregation in Canada and its consequences for wages. The sample period precedes many provincial pay equity … penalties in female jobs in Canada are generally much smaller than the estimates for the United States. Although there is some …
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