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In this paper, I document the systematic differences in labor market experiences between US black and white male workers. I develop a dynamic (search-matching-bargaining) model of taste-based employer discrimination with on-the-job search by workers. Using data from NLSY79, I find that the...
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This paper explores the racial differences in politicians’ persistence in elections. Empirical data from California city council elections and a close election regression dis- continuity design (CERDD) suggest that losing an election causes 70% attrition in rerunning for office. After a loss,...
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than for whites in 1993, and they increase for both race groups at higher levels of education. The lower quantity (or … barriers to employment by race are dismantled in South Africa, wage differences between races are likely to diminish, while … wage differences within race groups may well widen. Quantitative expansion of educational opportunities for nonwhites at …
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Using the retrospective (1989-94) Estonian Labour Force Survey (ELFS), we attempt to examine potential wage discrimination based on ethnicity (Estonian and Russian). Using standard wage decomposition methodology, we look at male full-time workers in the years 1989 and 1994. There is no evidence...
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This paper measures the wage differential between Palestinian non-refugees and Palestinian refugees in the West Bank and Gaza over the years 1999–2012. First, the main individual and occupational differences between the two groups in the two regions are presented. Then, the wage differential...
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'mulatos' —the mixed-race descendent from European, Indigenous, and African population. However, Latin American countries have … veiled income inequalities between racial groups through mestizaje identity or the 'Cosmic Race'. Using LAPOP … taxation in income or 'tagging' could decrease race-based disparities and improve economic development …
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, which is largely state-funded through Medicaid, and the gender and race dynamics of long-term care …
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What does race have to do with it? Nothing, really, when it comes to the purses professional boxers receive in world … percentage, white/non-white, champion/non-champion and Olympic Gold Medalist/non-Gold Medalist).Race proved to be a non-issue in …
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Married white men have higher wages and faster wage growth than unmarried white men. Using the NLSY, we examine whether racial differences in intrahousehold specialization and formal training explain married men's faster wage growth, and individual-specific data on cognitive skills, family...
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