Showing 1 - 10 of 1,648
Supervisory and monitoring costs are explored to understand aspects of occupational segregation by sex. Around the turn of this century 47 percent of all female manufacturing operatives were paid by the piece, but only 13 percent of the males were. There were very few males and females employed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477525
Research on sex differences in humans documents gender differences in sensory, motor and spatial aptitudes. These … of gender based occupational segregation by 20-23 percent in 1970 and 2012. Eliminating selection on DOT variables …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456428
This chapter reviews key literature studying the effects of wars on minority and underrepresented groups in U.S. labor markets in the 20th century. These labor markets, characterized by historically pervasive barriers to entry into certain occupations and industries, promotions, and fair pay for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014421237
Although the gender wage gap in the U.S. has narrowed, women's career trajectories diverge from men's after the birth … datasets show insignificant gender differentials in access to employer-subsidized child care and access to scheduling …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481026
state and federal minimum wage policies on gender, race, and ethnic inequality throughout the wage distribution, focusing on … gender, racial, and ethnic inequality in the present day …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014372482
We explore the evolution of income inequality and mobility in the U.S. for a large number of subnational groups defined by race and ethnicity, using granular statistics describing income distributions, income mobility, and conditional income growth derived from the universe of tax filers and W-2...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014635672
, ethnicity, and gender in the United States. However, the data necessary to detect possible discrimination and to act to counter … it is not publicly available - in particular, data on racial, ethnic, and gender disparities within specific companies … measure the racial, ethnic, and gender composition of company workforces. We use predictive tools based on both names and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014512147
effects could differ by race and gender, so implications for hourly earnings do not necessarily extend to overall earnings. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015072905
This paper studies the interaction between the decrease in the gender pay gap and the stagnation in the careers of … gender pay gap. The whole decline in the gap originates from (i) newer worker cohorts who enter the labor market with smaller …-than-average gender pay gaps and (ii) older worker cohorts who exit with higher-than-average gender pay gaps. As predicted by the model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014576641
employment discrimination against U.S. women. For the next 15 years, the gender gap in median earnings among full-time, full …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322720