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Average Gaps and Oaxaca–Blinder Decompositions : A Cautionary Tale About Regression Estimates of Racial Differences in Labor Market Outcomes

Słoczyński, Tymon - 2022

In this paper I demonstrate, both theoretically and empirically, that the interpretation of regression estimates of between-group differences in economic outcomes depends on the relative sizes of subpopulations under study. When the disadvantaged group is small, regression estimates are similar...

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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 … discrimination, is partly responsible for race differences in starting wages. But because women's average performance in the sample …

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What drives racial and ethnic differences in high cost mortgages? : the role of high risk lenders

Bayer, Patrick J.; Ferreira, Fernando Vendramel; Ross, … - 2016

This paper examines racial and ethnic differences in high cost mortgage lending in seven diverse metropolitan areas from 2004-2007. Even after controlling for credit score and other key risk factors, African-American and Hispanic home buyers are 105 and 78 percent more likely to have high cost...

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Average gaps and Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions : a cautionary tale about regression estimates of racial differences in labor market outcomes

Słoczyński, Tymon - 2018

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Tastes for discrimination monopsonistic in labour markets

Fanfani, Bernardo - 2020

This paper presents a model where wage differences between men and women arise from taste-based discrimination and monopsonistic mechanisms. We show how preferences against women affect heterogeneity in firms’ pay policies in the context of an imperfect labour market, deriving a test for the...

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Skin Tone's decreasing importance on employment : evidence from a longitudinal dataset, 1985-2000

Akee, Randall; Yuksel, Mutlu - 2010

measure of skin tone from a light-spectrometer and a self-reported measure of race we find that over time the effect of skin … year panel data. We find that the expansion of employment for women is concentrated in the services occupations. -- race …

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Racial gaps in labor market outcomes in the last four decades and over the business cycle

Cajner, Tomaz; Radler, Tyler; Ratner, David D.; … - 2017

We examine racial disparities in key labor market outcomes for men and women over the past four decades, with a special emphasis on their evolution over the business cycle. Blacks have substantially higher and more cyclical unemployment rates than whites, and observable characteristics can...

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Gender wage gap across the quantiles : what is the role of firm segregation?

Kaya, Ezgi - 2019

In this paper, we explore the role of firm segregation on the gender wage gap. Using linked employee-employer data for … Turkey, we investigate whether female segregation into low-paying firms and into low-paying jobs within a firm influence the … accounts for the existence of these effects more than the segregation of women into low-paying firms. …

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Gender and Race Heterogeneity : The Impact of Increases in Students with Limited English on Native Students' Performance

Diette, Timothy M. - 2014

achievement level lead us to explore in this paper whether the increased immigration has differential effects by gender and race …

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Racial/ethnic differences in non-work at work

Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Genadek, Katie R.; Burda, Michael C. - 2017

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