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Job assignment and promotion under statistical discrimination: evidence from the early careers of lawyers

Lehmann, Jee-Yeon - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Minorities continue to be severely underrepresented at the top levels of most occupations despite making dramatic gains in initial access to them. This fact is particularly striking in the legal profession where blacks are well represented in each associate class yet face significantly lower...

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The Motherhood Wage Penalty Revisited : Experience, Heterogeneity, Work Effort, and Work-Schedule Flexibility

Anderson, Deborah; Binder, Melissa; Krause, Kate - 2003

This paper seeks an explanation for the well-documented wage disadvantage of mothers compared to women without children. An analysis of data from the 1968-88 National Longitudinal Survey of Young Women shows that human capital inputs and unobserved heterogeneity explain 55-57% of the gap....

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Labor Market Dropouts and Trends in the Wages of Black and White Men

Juhn, Chinhui - 2003

searching for jobs, and if those dropouts have, on average, poor job prospects, the average wage of black workers who remain in … simple method of imputing wages to non-workers. When non-workers are accounted for in the calculations, real wage growth for … wages of workers and potential wages of non-workers …

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The Effects of Race Discrimination Laws

Neumark, David; Stock, Wendy A. - 2015

U.S. laws prohibiting race discrimination in labor markets began with state statutes passed in the 1940s and culminated in the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The effects of these laws on relative outcomes for blacks have been hotly debated. We present new evidence based on two sorts of variation:...

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Returns to Human Capital in Transitional Russia

Vernon, Victoria - 2003

This paper applies parametric and nonparametric techniques to the most recent data from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) 1992-2000 and shows the returns to schooling increased over the course of transition, overall and for attainment cohorts neither at the top nor bottom of the...

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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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Politics at Work

Colonnelli, Emanuele; Pinho Neto, Valdemar; Teso, Edoardo - 2022

political affiliation of business owners and private-sector workers in Brazil over the 2002–2019 period, we first document the … presence of political assortative matching: business owners are significantly more likely to employ copartisan workers … field experiment showing that owners have a direct preference for copartisan workers opposed to workers from a different …

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Politics At Work

Colonnelli, Emanuele; Pinho Neto, Valdemar Rodrigues de; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

political affiliation of business owners and private-sector workers in Brazil over the 2002-2019 period, we first document the … presence of political assortative matching: business owners are significantly more likely to employ copartisan workers … field experiment showing that owners have a direct preference for copartisan workers opposed to workers from a different …

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The Law and Economics of Disability Accommodations

Stein, Michael Ashley - 2004

The Americans with Disabilities Act provides a clear mandate that disabled workers be provided with "reasonable …

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50 Years of Breakthroughs and Barriers : Women in Economics, Policy, and Leadership

Blau, Francine D.; Lynch, Lisa M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This paper provides an overview of what has happened over the past fifty years for women as they worked to break through professional barriers in economics, policy, and institutional leadership. We chart the progress of women in higher education at the college level and beyond and then go on to...

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