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Occupational segregation by race and ethnicity in the US : differences across states
Gradín, Carlos; Río Otero, Coral del; Alonso Villar, Olga - 2011
Using the 2005-2007 American Community Survey, we analyze the occupational segregation of workers by race and ethnicity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011555092
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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
territorial differences in a) the educational level of white women, b) the gender-race composition of the labor force, c) the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011483661
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Strike three : umpires' demand for discrimination
Parsons, Christopher A.; Sulaeman, Johan; Yates, Michael C. - 2008
the umpire and pitcher match race/ethnicity. This effect only exists where there is little scrutiny of umpires' behavior … cannot determine the outcome of the at-bat. If a pitcher shares the home-plate umpire's race/ethnicity, he gives up fewer … measures of salary discrimination that adjust for measured productivity may be flawed. We derive the magnitude of the bias …
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Skin Tone's decreasing importance on employment : evidence from a longitudinal dataset, 1985-2000
Akee, Randall; Yuksel, Mutlu - 2010
; gender ; employment discrimination ; skin tone ; panel data … 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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Decomposing US income inequality à la Shapley : race matters, but gender too
Chantreuil, Frédéric; Fourrey, Kévin; Lebon, Isabelle; … - 2020
factors in income differences - race and gender - that contribute to income inequality within the population of blacks and … inequality associated with gender exceeds greatly that of race. While gender income inequality falls over time, income inequality … defined by the Gini index varies from 1% to 4% depending on the geographical administrative divisions used. Race tends to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012169318
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The Occupational Segregation of Black Women in the United States: A Look at its Evolution from 1940 to 2010
Alonso-Villar, Olga; del Río, Coral - Departamento de Economía Aplicada, Facultade de … - 2015
Based on detailed occupation titles and making use of measures that do not require pairwise comparisons among demographic groups, this paper shows that the occupational segregation of Black women declined dramatically in 1940-1980, decreased slightly in 1980-2000, and remained stagnant in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011274452
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014208485
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Remedying 'Unfair Acts' : U.S. Pay Equity by Race and Gender
Lapidus, June; Figart, Deborah M. - 1999
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 …Case studies in Canada, Australia, and the U.S. have found that pay equity (or comparable worth) has reduced the gender …
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
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 …Case studies in Canada, Australia, and the U.S. have found that pay equity (or comparable worth) has reduced the gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014208671
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The occupational segregation of Black women in the United States: A look at its evolution from 1940 to 2010
Alonso-Villar, Olga; Rio, Coral del - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2013
Based on harmonized and detailed occupation titles and making use of measures that do not require pair-wise comparisons among demographic groups, this paper shows that the occupational segregation of Black women dramatically declined from 1940 to 1980 (especially in the 1960s and 1970s), it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010711919