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In a seminal paper Gibbons and Katz (1991; GK) develop and empirically test an asymmetric information model of the labor market. The model predicts that wage losses following displacement should be larger for layouts than for plant closings, which was borne out by data from the Displaced Workers...
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productivity constant. We analyze close to 200 papers to investigate what drives authors to talk about discrimination, whether and …
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How pervasive is labor market discrimination against immigrants and what options do policymakers and migrants have to … reduce it? To answer these questions, we conducted a field experiment on employer discrimination in Sweden. Going beyond … efforts to reduce discrimination must address employer prejudice. …
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The fraction of women in economics has grown significantly over the last forty years. In spite of this, the differences … in research output between men and women are large and persistent. These output differences are related to differences in … the co-authorship networks of men and women: women have fewer collaborators, collaborate more often with the same co …
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Using an experimental setup involving 436 case workers at the Swedish Public Employment Service (SPES) as subjects and the profile photographs and recorded voices of 75 jobseekers as treatments, we report results indicating that male case workers tend to favor jobseekers perceived as having a...
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discrimination to the black-white wage differential. The proposed estimation strategy is implemented using data from the Young … Physicians Survey. The results suggest that potential discrimination plays a small role in the racial wage gap among physicians …. At most, discrimination lowers the hourly wages of black physicians by 3.3 percent. Decomposition shows that consumer …
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-dominated university subjects or occupations pay less, but also that men face a higher wage penalty than women when they graduated in a …
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This paper proposes an extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition from two to a continuum of comparison groups. The proposed decomposition is then estimated for the case of racial wage differences in urban Peru, exploiting a novel data set that allows the capturing of mestizaje (racial mixtures).
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The paper analyzes the effect of mother tongue on labor market outcomes of Swiss residents. This type of analysis can shed light on an important policy question. Is the Swiss labor market well integrated, or can one find instead segmentation along language borders? Improving on previous research...
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This paper empirically tests for two competing explanations of the increasing sex ratio at birth (SRB) in India: hepatitis B and human intervention. Estimating a male- preferring stopping rule with data from three rounds of the National Family Health Survey in India (1992, 1998 and 2005), I find...
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