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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 …
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policies not to hire women in particular occupations and to exclude men from other occupations. A model of discrimination is …
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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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Using several microeconomic data sets from the United States and the Netherlands, and the examples of height and beauty, this study examines whether: 1) Absolute or relative differences in a characteristic are what affect labor-market and other outcomes; and 2) The effects of a characteristic...
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. First, we show that climate strongly predicts the spatial distribution of immigrants in the US, both historically (1880) and …
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We study the long-run career mobility of young immigrants, mostly refugees, from Vietnam who moved to the United States … during 1989-1995. This third and final migration wave of young Vietnamese immigrants was sparked by unexpected events that … young vs. older immigrants, and we quantify explanatory factors like education, language fluency, and persistence from …
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mobility in Argentina and immigration contributed positively to the process of economic development. We then turn our focus to … basis of literacy, complementing existing evidence of rapid upward mobility and contribution to growth at destination …
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