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We present evidence on changes in workplace segregation by education, race, ethnicity, and sex, from 1990 to 2000. The … find no evidence of declines in workplace segregation by race and ethnicity; indeed, black-white segregation increased …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012711350
We present evidence on changes in workplace segregation by education, race, ethnicity, and sex, from 1990 to 2000. The … find no evidence of declines in workplace segregation by race and ethnicity; indeed, black-white segregation increased …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005058749
importance of network effects for groups broken out by race, ethnicity, and various measures of skill, for networks generated by … and the less-skilled, especially among Hispanics, and that labor market networks appear to be race-based. …
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Using a unique data set, this paper first documents that gaps in starting wages by race and sex persist after … discrimination, is partly responsible for race differences in starting wages. But because women's average performance in the sample …
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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 assess the role of education - and language-related skill differentials in … generating workplace segregation by race and ethnicity. We define segregation based on the extent to which workers are more or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014072039
importance of network effects for groups broken out by race, ethnicity, and various measures of skill, for networks generated by … and the less-skilled, especially among Hispanics, and that labor market networks appear to be race-based. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703239
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 assess the role of education- and language-related skill differentials … in generating workplace segregation by race and ethnicity. We define segregation based on the extent to which workers are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004976994
We assess the evidence on the contribution of changes in the population age structure to the changing fortunes of youths in labor markets in advanced economies over the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s, and use this evidence to project the likely effects of future cohort sizes on youth labor...
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The impending retirement of the baby boom cohort represents the first time in the history of the United States that such a large and well-educated group of workers will exit the labor force. This could imply skill shortages in the U.S. economy. We develop near-term labor force projections of the...
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This paper tests whether school-to-work (STW) programs are particularly beneficial for those less likely to go to college in their absence often termed the forgotten half in the STW literature. The empirical analysis is based on the NLSY97, which allows us to study six types of STW programs,...
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