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The relative earnings of young Mexican, Black, and White women
Antecol, Heather; Bedard, Kelly - 1999
Using the NLSY, we find that young Mexican women earn 9% less than young White women while young Black women earn 15% less than young White women. Although young Mexican women earn less than young White women, they do surprisingly well compared to young Black women. We show that it is crucially...
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The Gendered Impacts of Perceived Skin Tone : Evidence from African-American Siblings in 1870–1940
Abramitzky, Ran; Conway, Jacob; Mill, Roy; Stein, Luke - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
had lower-earning, less-educated husbands. These patterns are consistent with more severe contemporaneous discrimination … contemporaneous discrimination, consistent with the "one-drop" racial classification rule that grouped together individuals with any … historical or family-level discrimination …
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The Gendered Impacts of Perceived Skin Tone : Evidence from African-American Siblings in 1870–1940
Abramitzky, Ran; Conway, Jacob; Mill, Roy; Stein, Luke C.D - 2023
had lower-earning, less-educated husbands. These patterns are consistent with more severe contemporaneous discrimination … contemporaneous discrimination, consistent with the "one-drop" racial classification rule that grouped together individuals with any … historical or family-level discrimination …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014254281
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The paradox of declining female happiness
Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2009
By many objective measures the lives of women in the United States have improved over the past 35 years, yet we show that measures of subjective well-being indicate that women's happiness has declined both absolutely and relative to men. The paradox of women's declining relative well-being is...
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Subjective and objective indicators of racial progress
Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2013
Progress in closing differences in many objective outcomes for blacks relative to whites has slowed, and even worsened, over the past three decades. However, over this period the racial gap in well-being has shrunk. In the early 1970s data revealed much lower levels of subjective well-being...
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Age Discrimination in U.S. Labor Markets : A Review of the Evidence
Adams, Scott J.; Neumark, David - 2015
We review the existing evidence on age discrimination and its effects in U.S. labor markets. First, we look at attempts … tells us anything about the nature and effect of age discrimination. Third, we document the disadvantageous positions of … result of discrimination on the part of employers. Despite many conflicting results and alternative interpretations of those …
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U.S. Labor Market Regulation and the Export of Employment : Major League Baseball Replaces U.S. Players with Foreigners
Shepherd, Joanna; Shepherd, George B. - 2012
Our analysis of the market for professional baseball players shows that domestic labor-market restrictions have reduced domestic employment, especially of African-Americans, with employers instead shifting employment overseas. Our theoretical model suggests that, in 1965, the imposition of both...
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Detecting discrimination in Audit and correspondence studies
Neumark, David - 2010
Audit studies testing for discrimination have been criticized because applicants from different groups may not appear … unobservable determinants of productivity can still generate spurious evidence of discrimination in either direction. This paper … shows how to recover an unbiased estimate of discrimination when the correspondence study includes variation in applicant …
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Awareness reduces racial bias
Pope, Devin G.; Price, Joseph; Wolfers, Justin - 2014
Can raising awareness of racial bias subsequently reduce that bias? We address this question by exploiting the widespread media attention highlighting racial bias among professional basketball referees that occurred in May 2007 following the release of an academic study. Using new data, we...
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Systemic discrimination among large U.S. employers
Kline, Patrick; Rose, Evan K.; Walters, Christopher R. - 2021
Black names reduce the probability of employer contact by 2.1 percentage points relative to distinctively white names. The …. Discrimination exhibits little geographical dispersion, but two digit industry explains roughly half of the cross-firm variation in … quintile of racial discrimination responsible for nearly half of lost contacts to Black applicants in the experiment …
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