Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 30,970
Cover Image
Racial discrimination in the US labor market : employment and wage differentials by skill
Borowczyk-Martins, Daniel; Bradley, Jake; Tarasonis, Linas - 2014
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/10010355697
Cover Image
Underrepresentation in STEM : Analyzing the Plight of Female, Racial Minority, and LGBTQIA+ Individuals in the United States and Offering Recommendations for Improvement
Secor, Katelyn - 2022
Across the United States, there is a dearth of women, underrepresented racial minority (URM), and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual, and many other terms (LGBTQIA+) community members in STEM-oriented academic majors and careers. While prior research has tended to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014081496
Cover Image
ORU analyses of immigrant earnings in Australia, with international comparisons
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2009
international transferability of immigrants' human capital, and undereducation to favorable selection in immigration. Comparisons …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269488
Cover Image
How do Latin American migrants in the U.S. stand on schooling premium? : what does it reveal about education quality in their home countries?
Alonso Soto, Daniel; Ñopo, Hugo - 2017
Indicators for quality of schooling are not only relatively new in the world but also unavailable for a sizable share of the world's population. In their absence, some proxy measures have been devised. One simple but powerful idea has been to use the schooling premium for migrant workers in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011732083
Cover Image
Racial Discrimination in the U.S. Labor Market : Employment and Wage Differentials by Skill
Borowczyk-Martins, Daniel - 2014
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
Cover Image
Gender discrimination estimation in a search model with matching and bargaining
Flabbi, Luca - 2005
differentials are due to labor market discrimination or to unobserved productivity differences. The objective of this paper is to … matching, bargaining and employers' taste discrimination. In equilibrium all types of employers wage discriminate women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267552
Cover Image
Immigrant heterogeneity and the earnings distribution in the United Kingdom and United States : new evidence from a panel data quantile regression analysis
Billger, Sherrilyn M.; Lamarche, Carlos - 2010
differential. For instance, a large wage penalty occurs in the U.S. among female immigrants from non-English speaking countries … individual heterogeneity in better understanding immigrant wage effects. -- immigrants ; earnings ; quantile regression ; panel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009153565
Cover Image
ORU analyses of immigrant earnings in Australia, with international comparisons
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2009
international transferability of immigrants' human capital, and undereducation to favorable selection in immigration. Comparisons …. The sensitivity of the results of the decomposition to several measurement issues is assessed. -- Immigrants ; schooling …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003898600
Cover Image
The gender wage gap : extent, trends, and explanations
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2016
experimental evidence strongly suggests that discrimination cannot be discounted. Psychological attributes or noncognitive skills …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011417670
Cover Image
The gender wage gap : extent, trends, and explanations
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2016
experimental evidence strongly suggests that discrimination cannot be discounted. Psychological attributes or noncognitive skills …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450031