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Wage Differentials by Race and Sex : The Roles of Taste Discrimination and Labor Market Information

Neumark, David - 2000

Using a unique data set, this paper first documents that gaps in starting wages by race and sex persist after accounting for performance on the job. Evidence suggests that simple statistical discrimination, and not just taste discrimination, is partly responsible for race differences in starting...

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Marriage, motherhood, and wages

Korenman, Sanders; Neumark, David - 1990

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000803017

Marriage, Motherhood, and Wages

Korenman, Sanders - 1990

We explore several problems in drawing causal inferences from cross-sectional relationships between marriage …, motherhood, and wages. We find that heterogeneity leads to biased estimates of the "direct" effects of marriage and motherhood on … wages (i.e., effects net of experience and tenure); first-difference estimates reveal no direct effect of marriage or …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012475554

Marriage, Motherhood, and Wages

Korenman, Sanders - 2010

We explore several problems in drawing causal inferences from cross-sectional relationships between marriage …, motherhood, and wages. We find that heterogeneity leads to biased estimates of the quot;directquot; effects of marriage and … motherhood on wages (i.e., effects net of experience and tenure); first-difference estimates reveal no direct effect of marriage …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760090

Is Marriage Always Good for Children? Evidence from Families Affected by Incarceration

Neumark, David; Finlay, Keith - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

may be driven by other factors that affect marital status at birth, post-conception marriage decisions, and later child … outcomes, rather than causal effects of family structure. Given that changes in the availability of men in the marriage market … should affect marriage decisions, we use incarceration rates for men as an instrumental variable for family structure in …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005050158

Changes in Workplace Segregation in the United States between 1990 and 2000: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data

Hellerstein, Judith K.; Neumark, David; McInerney, Melissa - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

We present evidence on changes in workplace segregation by education, race, ethnicity, and sex, from 1990 to 2000. The evidence indicates that racial and ethnic segregation at the workplace level remained quite pervasive in 2000. At the same time, there was fairly substantial segregation by...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005829948

Why are Racial and Ethnic Wage Gaps Larger for Men than for Women? Exploring the Role of Segregation

Hellerstein, Judith K.; Neumark, David; Troske, Kenneth R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1999

We examine the possible sources of the larger racial and ethnic wage gaps for men than for women in the U.S. Specifically, using a newly created employer-employee matched data set containing workers in essentially all occupations, industries, and regions, we examine whether these wage...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005830538

Workplace Segregation in the United States: Race, Ethnicity, and Skill

Hellerstein, Judith; Neumark, David - Department of Economics, University of California-Irvine - 2006

We study workplace segregation in the United States using a unique matched employer-employee data set that we have created. We present measures of workplace segregation by education and language, and by race and ethnicity, and since skill is often correlated with race and ethnicity we...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004976994

What Does Affirmative Action Do?

Holzer, Harry J.; Neumark, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1998

We use data from a survey of employers to investigate how Affirmative Action in recruiting and hiring influences hiring practices, personnel policies, and ultimately employment outcomes. Our results show that Affirmative Action increases the number of recruitment and screening practices used by...

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Assessing Affirmative Action

Neumark, David; Holzer, Harry - In: Journal of Economic Literature 38 (2000) 3, pp. 483-568

Economic research provides extensive evidence regarding discrimination against women and minorities, and some evidence on the redistributive effects of affirmative action. However, it provides much less evidence on affirmative action's impact on efficiency or performance, perhaps the key...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005560479

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