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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 communication data. In case of Estonia we consider the regional variation in … economic performance of the Russian minority, and in the U.S. case we consider the regional variation in black …
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’s log wage is a function of education, experience, and race. We analyze this approach in a context where individuals live …
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factors in income differences - race and gender - that contribute to income inequality within the population of blacks and … defined by the Gini index varies from 1% to 4% depending on the geographical administrative divisions used. Race tends to … inequality associated with gender exceeds greatly that of race. While gender income inequality falls over time, income inequality …
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of adopting comparable worth to alleviate race- as well as gender-based wage discrimination. First we report the negative … find that implementing comparable worth would appreciably narrow the race- and gender-based wage gaps and significantly …
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of adopting comparable worth to alleviate race- as well as gender-based wage discrimination. First we report the negative … find that implementing comparable worth would appreciably narrow the race- and gender-based wage gaps and significantly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014208671
The US black-white wage gap is an issue that has attracted thorough investigation, but so far the corresponding gap for fringe benefits has not received sufficient attention. Although ethnic differences in fringe benefits could affect wage differences, previous analysis of ethnic wage gaps in...
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This paper is part of the Global Repository of Income Dynamics (GRID) project cross‐country comparison of earnings inequality, volatility, and mobility. Using data from the U.S. Census Bureau's Longitudinal Employer‐Household Dynamics (LEHD) infrastructure files, we produce a uniform set of...
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by race and ethnicity, using granular statistics describing income distributions, income mobility, and conditional income …
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In this paper we develop procedures for performing inference in regression models about how potential policy interventions affect the entire marginal distribution of an outcome of interest. These policy interventions consist of either changes in the distribution of covariates related to the...
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Models in which employers learn about the productivity of young workers, such as Altonji and Pierret (2001), have two principal implications: First, the distribution of wages becomes more dispersed as a cohort of workers gains experience; second, the coefficient on a variable that employers...
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