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The Timing of Preference and Prejudice in Sequential Hiring Games
Waddell, Glen R.; Lee, Logan M. - 2014
We model a hiring process in which the candidate is evaluated sequentially by two agents of the firm who each observe an independent signal of the candidate's productivity. We introduce the potential for taste-based discrimination and characterize how one agent's private valuation of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010409404
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The Timing of Preference and Prejudice in Sequential Hiring Games
Waddell, Glen R.; Lee, Logan M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We model a hiring process in which the candidate is evaluated sequentially by two agents of the firm who each observe an independent signal of the candidate's productivity. We introduce the potential for taste-based discrimination and characterize how one agent's private valuation of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959532
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Subjective and Objective Indicators of Racial Progress
Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010636771
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How Race and Gender Shape COVID-19 Unemployment Probability
Gezici, Armagan; Ozay, Ozge - 2020
Using the April 2020 Current Population Survey (CPS) micro dataset, we explore the racialized and gendered effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the probability of being unemployed. The distribution of job losses from COVID-19 for women and men or for different racial/ethnic categories has been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014094474
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The Relative Earnings of Young Mexican, Black, and White Women
Antecol, Heather; Bedard, Kelly - 2008
This analysis of data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth indicates that young Mexican women and young black women earned, respectively, 9.5% and 13.2% less than young white women in 1994. Differences in education appear to be the most important explanation for the Mexican-white wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014103943
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An Extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition to a Continuum of Comparison Groups
Ñopo, Hugo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper proposes an extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition from two to a continuum of comparison groups. The proposed decomposition is then estimated for the case of racial wage differences in urban Peru, exploiting a novel data set that allows the capturing of mestizaje (racial mixtures).
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703480
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Last Hired, First Fired? Black-White Unemployment and the Business Cycle
Couch, Kenneth; Fairlie, Robert - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2005
Past studies have tested the claim that blacks are the last hired during periods of economic growth and the first fired in recessions by examining the movement of relative unemployment rates over the business cycle. Any conclusion drawn from this type of analysis must be viewed as tentative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005839022
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Subjective and Objective Indicators of Racial Progress *
Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 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 wellbeing has shrunk. In the early 1970s data revealed much lower levels of subjective well‐being...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011186027
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Subjective and Objective Indicators of Racial Progress
Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084479
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Fertility in South Dublin a century ago: A first look
Guinnane, Timothy W.; Moehling, Carolyn M.; Ó Gráda, … - 2001
Ireland’s relatively late and feeble fertility transition remains poorly-understood. The leading explanations stress … Ireland to study fertility in Dublin and Belfast. Our larger project aims to use the extensive literature on the fertility … those used in previous studies of Irish fertility, and is the first from an urban area. We find considerable support for the …
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