Hispanic women in the US. The first part examines 1990 and 2002, two years with very similar national unemployment levels, and … the poverty levels of black and Hispanic women would be different if they were paid the same wages as white women with the … same characteristics. The results show that for the working poor black women the difference in poverty rates would be small …

committed in the property crime market: only 30% of the crimes are committed by women. Starting from the classical Becker …'s model on crime we investigate some potential reasons for the participation gap looking at the differential incentives …, measured in terms of earnings and probability of arrest. We observe that women obtain on average 32% less criminal earnings and …

women in 1990 underestimated the true, selection-corrected gap, i.e., the gap we would have expected to see had all of these … women been employed in 1990. In this paper, we use the NLSY97 to update his analysis. The observed median log wage gap … considerable extent by changes in the distribution of educational attainment across young white and black women. …