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high-skill workers. In this paper we show that a model of employer taste-based discrimination in a labor market … workers. We use the model to undertake a structural decomposition and conclude that discrimination resulting from employer …
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major) or employer discrimination against black job candidates. However, limited measures of human capital and the inherent … difficulties in measuring discrimination using observational data make determining the cause of racial differences in labor … in the labor market. Thus, both discrimination and differences in human capital contribute to racial economic inequality …
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According to Becker's (1957) theory of taste-based employer discrimination, pure economic rents are necessary for … discrimination to be observed in the labor market. Increased competition and reduced rents in the market for final goods should … therefore lead to reduced labor market discrimination. We look at the natural experiment represented by the Brazilian trade …
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. Unskilled immigrants who arrive in the USA as children and adolescents experience substantial wage assimilation, especially … fail to catch up to the wage status of either native-born whites or native-born African-Americans. After living in the USA …
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This paper uses Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) data linked to administrative data to track the educational and labour market outcomes of young people. Students with lower skills have lower rates of participation in further education. While men with low skills out-earn...
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Using Baccalaureate and Beyond data, I study whether university quality, both absolute and relative to other universities in the region, affects earnings one and ten years after graduation, controlling for the individual's SAT score. One year after graduation, high SAT score students earn 12%...
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high-skill workers.In this paper we show that a model of employer taste-based discrimination in a labor market … workers. We use the model to undertake a structural decomposition and conclude that discrimination resulting from employer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013053443
This paper describes the changes in the composition of the labor force in the last 35 years and quantifies the substitution of low education/high experience workers by low experience/high education workers by using US and French microdata. The consequences of this substitution on the wage...
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traits. Such prejudice does not necessarily lead to wage discrimination. Whether or not it does depends on the nature of the … Project (RUMiC) to explore whether native-place wage discrimination affects migrant workers in China's urban labor markets. We … analyze the question of wage discrimination among migrants by estimating wage equations for men and women, controlling for …
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We analyze trends in labor-market returns to psychological traits using data from half a million Finnish men from 2001 to 2015. Cognitive skills' value declined, while noncognitive skills' value increased. Our novel findings show that extraversion drives this rise, while conscientiousness...
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