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Past studies have tested the claim that blacks are the last hired during periods of economic growth and the first fired in recessions by examining the movement of relative unemployment rates over the business cycle. Any conclusion drawn from this type of analysis must be viewed as tentative...
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possibility among women and investigate if race/ethnicity and birthplace still have a role to play in the decision to use welfare … even after controlling for income, health and other demographic factors like employment. We find that race does not matter …
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scaffolding erected many years earlier. Using a novel within race decomposition we provide evidence that past institutions …
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This paper analyzes the relationship between unexplained racial/ethnic wage differentials on the one hand and social network segregation, as measured by inbreeding homophily, on the other hand. Our analysis is based on both U.S. and Estonian surveys, supplemented with Estonian telephone...
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The Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique is widely used to identify and quantify the separate contributions of group differences in measurable characteristics, such as education, experience, marital status, and geographical differences to racial and gender gaps in outcomes. The technique...
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The Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique is widely used to identify and quantify the separate contributions of group differences in measurable characteristics, such as education, experience, marital status, and geographical differences to racial and gender gaps in outcomes. The technique...
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This Chapter reviews evidence on discrimination in basketball, primarily examining studies on race but with some …
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on the basis of defendant race. These results are consistent with racial prejudice on the part of white jurors, black …. Simulations of the model suggest that jurors of each race are heterogeneous in the standards of evidence that they require to … convict and that both black and white defendants would prefer to face jurors of the same race. …
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, whereas the former ignore race. This paper traces this disjuncture to two sources. What is missing in the social science view … discrimination in credit markets have, ironically, had the effect of making race analytically invisible. Because of these explanatory …
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disadvantage of bad-looking workers. A theory of job search suggests two opposite-signed mechanisms that affect these wage …
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