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Age, Women, and Hiring : An Experimental Study

Lahey, Joanna - 2008

worker. No evidence is found to support taste-based discrimination as a reason for this differential and some suggestive … evidence is found to support statistical discrimination …

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Subjective and Objective Indicators of Racial Progress

Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 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...

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Mothers-in-Law and Son Preference in India

Robitaille, Marie-Claire; Chatterjee, Ishita - 2015

In India, the mothers-in-law are all powerful. At least they are often portrayed as such in Indian popular culture. Similarly, in the socio-economic literature, the influence of the Indian mothers-in-law is often taken for granted. However, most of the empirical evidence relies on qualitative...

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Persistence and Change in Age-Specific Gender Gaps : Hollywood Actors from the Silent Era Onward

Hanssen, F. Andrew; Fleck, Robert K. - 2020

The relationship between gender, age, and employment (and the potential for changing it) has interested scholars – and inspired activists – since at least the advent of the women’s rights movement. In this paper, we examine the gender and age mix for an unusually visible profession: acting...

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Age Discrimination in U.S. Labor Markets : A Review of the Evidence

Adams, Scott J.; Neumark, David - 2015

We review the existing evidence on age discrimination and its effects in U.S. labor markets. First, we look at attempts … tells us anything about the nature and effect of age discrimination. Third, we document the disadvantageous positions of … result of discrimination on the part of employers. Despite many conflicting results and alternative interpretations of those …

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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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Still Hazy after All These Years : The Data and Theory Behind 'Mismatch'

Kidder, William; Onwuachi-Willig, Angela - 2014

In the context of reviewing the book "Mismatch" by Sander and Taylor, the authors provide a comprehensive review and synthesis of dozens of social science research studies regarding affirmative action, mismatch, graduation rates and labor market earnings. In addition, the authors look at the...

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Gender Inequality Among Political Elites in Comparative Perspective

Hansson, Jenny L. - 2014

Are gender inequalities in work/life outcomes apparent among those positioned at the powerful top of society’s hierarchy, and if so, why? There is currently a lack of consistent knowledge about what happens to those women who have reached the most influential positions of society, and about...

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The Geography of Stigma Management : The Relationship between Sexual Orientation, City Size, and Self-Monitoring

Knight, Carly; Tilcsik, András; Anteby, Michel - 2021

self-presentation, with implications for the literatures on identity formation, stigma management, and labor markets …

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People Accounting : Social Category-Based Choice

Garcia, Stephen M.; Ybarra, Oscar - 2006

This paper presents people accounting - a hypothesis that describes how a simple numerical imbalance in representation along nominal social category lines can affect people's choice of candidates in highly competitive situations (e.g., awards, jobs, etc.). For example, two scholarship finalists...

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