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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 important to account for actual labor market experience. We further …
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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 important to account for actual labor market experience. We further …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011561539
In 1958 Jacob Mincer pioneered an important approach to understand how earnings are distributed across the population. In the years since Mincer’s seminal work, he as well as his students and colleagues extended the original human capital model, reaching important conclusions about a whole...
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Being beautiful gives a person an advantage in many settings. Attractive people earn more and have an easier time getting hired. People spend large amounts of money on goods and services to enhance their beauty. Is this enhancement worth pursuing? Research suggests that the expected improvement...
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constraints for blue-collar jobs than white-collar/pink-collar jobs, and that women face greater age discrimination than men … for the period 2013-2015 in the UK, suggests that age discrimination persists at alarming levels. It shows that when two … written commitments to equal opportunities. The design of the study suggests that discrimination results from distaste for …
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The economics of beauty is now a burgeoning field of research. Not only the magnitude but also the direction of the beauty effect on labor outcomes is a matter of discussion. In this work, I conduct a quantitative synthesis of 418 estimates of the effect of beauty on worker's productivity, as...
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an independent signal of the candidate's productivity. We introduce the potential for taste-based discrimination and …
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analyzes this issue by comparing the employment of minorities and women at firms holding federal contracts and therefore … beneficiaries of affirmative action in federal contracting over 1973-2003 were black and Native American women and men. Analysis of … employment shares of minorities and women at federal contractors relative to noncontracting firms occurred during the 1970s and …
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was soon raised whether citations are a good measure of scholarly merit. Are women at a disadvantage in male … the same gender. This paper examines whether women's disadvantage in garnering citations has been reduced by the … increasing representation of women in economics and finds that this has been the case in both labor economics and economics in …
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discrimination between men and women. Of course, these discriminations are indirect but the results is the same about recrutment …, careers, wages, balance between family life and work, vocational training... Some firms implement practices for women …
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