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-based discrimination and express different career and life aspirations, including less desire for children. Anti-non-binary sentiment is …
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Interest in economic mobility stems largely from its perceived role as an equalizer of opportunities, though not necessarily of outcomes. In this paper we show that this view leads very naturally to a methodology for the measurement of social mobility which has strong parallels with the theory...
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Labor-market discrimination measures are usually derived from between-group comparisons of market outcomes for favored … heterogeneous, one can relate variations in discrimination intensity to market outcomes within the disfavored group. We use this … approach to test for employment and wage discrimination against persons with various types of disabilities. Measures of social …
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Discrimination against women has been alleged in hiring practices for many occupations, but it is extremely difficult …
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This paper explores the prevalence and consequences of age discrimination in the workplace by analyzing self-reports of … discrimination by respondents in the National Longitudinal Survey of Older Men. Age discrimination was reported in seven percent of … employer and less likely to remain employed than workers who report no age discrimination. The estimated effect of reported …
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In this paper we use micro-level data on employers and employees to investigate whether Affirmative Action procedures lead firms to hire minority or female employees who are less qualified than workers who might otherwise be hired. Our measures of qualifications include the educational...
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Discrimination is notoriously difficult to document. Convincing tests for discrimination require good measures of the … to the task of measuring discrimination, copious bibliographic data on the impact of academic research make possible … tests of discrimination in the editorial process. This study develops a test for possible bias þ with respect to author …
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We propose several models in which an ascriptive characteristic generates earnings differentials and is sorted across sectors. The general approach shows how to distinguish the ultimate sources of labor-market returns to such characteristics; the specific example uses longitudinal data on a...
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This paper reports on a small-scale audit study that investigates sex discrimination in restaurant hiring. Comparably … applications led to 54 interviews and 39 job offers. The results provide statistically significant evidence of sex discrimination …
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We develop a theory of sorting across occupations based on looks and derive its implications for testing for the source of earnings differentials related to looks. These differentials are examined using the 1977 Quality of Employment, the 1971 Quality of American Life, and the 1981 Canadian...
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