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-based discrimination in federally funded educational programs. The data paint a picture of considerable progress but also persistent …
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question the role of discrimination and instead attribute the residual pay gap to gender differences in preferences. The main …, are indeed responsible for the gender pay gap, or whether discrimination plays a role. On balance, the evidence indicates … that sex discrimination remains a possible explanation of the unexplained gender pay gap. This is consistent with the …
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We use 1980, 1990 and 2000 Census data to study the impact of source country characteristics on the labor supply assimilation profiles of married adult immigrant women and men. Women migrating from countries where women have high relative labor force participation rates work substantially more...
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This article first parses the multiple overlapping definitions of discrimination, including distinctions between group … and individual discrimination and between segregation and discrimination in pay. The article then summarizes the major … economic models of discrimination, particularly Becker's taste-for-discrimination model and statistical-discrimination models …
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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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The past five decades have seen a remarkable convergence in the economic roles of men and women in society. Yet, persistently large gender gaps in terms of labor supply, earnings, and representation in top jobs remain. Moreover, in countries like the U.S., convergence in labor market outcomes...
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Using a promotion signaling model in which wages are realistically shaped by market forces, we analyze how male overconfidence combined with competitive workplace incentives affects gender equality in the labor market. Our main result is that overconfident workers exert more effort to be...
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Gender differences in overconfidence have been extensively documented in the empirical literature, but the implications for labor market outcomes are not well understood. In this paper, we analyze how men's relatively higher overconfidence, combined with competitive job incentives, affects...
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We conduct a correspondence study to assess demand for soft skills in the context of hiring discrimination in Malaysia …. We find no evidence of gender-based discrimination, including in STEM occupations. However, in line with previous studies … in the same context, we find evidence of ethnic discrimination. We then test the relevance of two soft skills: leadership …
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