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Skin Tone's decreasing importance on employment : evidence from a longitudinal dataset, 1985-2000
Akee, Randall; Yuksel, Mutlu - 2010
We investigate the effect of skin tone on employment probabilities in a longitudinal data set. Using an objective measure of skin tone from a light-spectrometer and a self-reported measure of race we find that over time the effect of skin tone on employment has diminished. These results hold...
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Mapping the occupational segregation of white women in the U.S. : differences across metropolitan areas
Alonso Villar, Olga; Río Otero, Coral del - 2015
This paper seeks to investigate the occupational segregation of white women in the U.S. at the local labor market level, exploring whether the segregation of this group is a homogeneous phenomenon across the country or there are important disparities in the opportunities that these women meet...
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Revisiting Occupational Crowding in the United States : A Preliminary Study
Gibson, Karen J.; Darity, William A.; Myers, Jr., Samuel L. - 2008
In her study of occupational segregation in the United States using the 1960 Census, Barbara R. Bergmann found black males with low levels of education more concentrated in low-skill service and laborer occupations than white males and virtually excluded from higher status occupations. Utilizing...
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Remedying 'Unfair Acts' : U.S. Pay Equity by Race and Gender
Lapidus, June; Figart, Deborah M. - 1999
Case studies in Canada, Australia, and the U.S. have found that pay equity (or comparable worth) has reduced the gender-based wage gap substantially, and results of research on the gender composition of jobs have been used in guiding pay equity implementation. But, in general, the racial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014208487
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'Unfair Acts' : U.S. Pay Equity by Race and Gender
Lapidus, June; Figart, Deborah M. - 1998
Case studies in Canada, Australia, and the U.S. have found that pay equity (or comparable worth) has reduced the gender-based wage gap substantially, and results of research on the gender composition of jobs have been used in guiding pay equity implementation. But, in general, the racial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014208671
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Family Matters : Gender Affirmation and the Mental Health of Transgender Youth
Campbell, Travis; Mann, Samuel; Rodgers, Yana van der Meulen - 2023
youth using data from the United States Transgender Survey. We use retrospective panel data to compare changes in mental … health among transgender youth who initiate social transitions compared to those who initiate social transitions a year later … transgender youth who live in unsupportive families, whereas supportive family environments mitigate, and in some cases, virtually …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014346392
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Social norms and teenage smoking : the dark side of gender equality
Rodríguez-Planas, Núria; Sanz de Galdeano, Anna - 2016
This paper is the first to provide evidence that cultural attitudes towards gender equality affect behaviors with potentially devastating health consequences, and that they do so differently for male and female teenagers. In particular, we show that descending from more gender-equal societies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011521163
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Mind the Gap : Gender Pay Disparities in the Legal Academy
Ryan, CJ - 2020
Differences in pay between women and men in the same jobs have captured the public's attention in recent years. However, public interest in and press coverage of salary differences on the basis of gender—or any other ascriptive class—in the learned professions are wanting. Moreover, few...
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Wage Differentials in the 1990s in Israel : Endowments, Discrimination, and Selectivity
Neuman, Shoshana; Oaxaca, Ronald L. - 2021
The purpose of this paper is to investigate wage structures of professional workers in the Israeli labor market, using data from the most recent 1995 Census and correcting for selectivity at the stage of entrance into the occupation. The sample of professionals is decomposed into several...
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Distributional differences and the Native American gender wage gap
Burnette, Jeffrey; Zhang, Weiwei - In: Economies : open access journal 7 (2019) 2/46, pp. 1-18
We use the Theil index and data from the 2012-2016, American Community Survey 5-Year Sample to document and analyze gender wage inequality for American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) women across single, multiracial and ethnic identity groups. Mean differences in hourly wages by gender...
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