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gender segregation and stratification, with women and men entering occupations previously dominated by the other gender …In this paper, I show that occupations in South Africa are segregated and stratified not only by race, but also by … process. Distinct worker characteristics by gender, such as education, location, or age, cannot explain existing segregation …
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same period and have remained constant over the sample period. Most of the race-based occupational segregation is a result … sector of work and facing a large institutionalized pay difference. This raises the question whether segregation and … historical wage gaps still exist and are affected by the government in power. Therefore, this study provides evidence of race …
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Racial wage inequality and discrimination have pervaded South African society for centuries. Apartheid legislation … started to decline towards the end of apartheid, they increased (against all expectations) in the immediate post …
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It is almost universally assumed that race is an exogenously given trait that is not subject to change. But as race is … broader trends in racial disparities, and the emerging literature on the construction of race and individual identity. …
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Antman and Duncan (2014, 2015) document how racial identity responds to state affirmative action policy. The main contribution of our work was to show that racial identity responds to state affirmative action policy. A coding error was recently brought to our attention that resulted in 0.55% of...
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This paper seeks to investigate the occupational segregation of white women in the U.S. at the local labor market level …, exploring whether the segregation of this group is a homogeneous phenomenon across the country or there are important …) and calculate an index - mainly the index of dissimilarity - for each of these comparisons, this paper use segregation …
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women's employment in the United States through the lenses of both feminist economic theory and stratification economics. …
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According to Becker's (1957) theory of taste-based employer discrimination, pure economic rents are necessary for discrimination to be observed in the labor market. Increased competition and reduced rents in the market for final goods should therefore lead to reduced labor market discrimination....
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This paper studies the impact of an affirmative action policy on occupational segregation by gender in South Africa. We …
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This paper studies the impact of an affirmative action policy on occupational segregation by gender in South Africa. We …
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