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Labor Market Discrimination and Racial Differences in Premarket Factors

Carneiro, Pedro Manuel; Heckman, James J.; Masterov, … - 2021

We investigate the relative significance of differences in cognitive skills and discrimination in explaining racial/ethnic wage gaps. We show that cognitive test scores taken prior to entering the labor market are influenced by schooling. Adjusting the scores for racial/ethnic differences in...

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Racial and gender wage differentials in South Africa : what can cohort data tell?

Grün, Carola - 2003

of genuine panel data. This paper focuses on gender and race specific cohort wages. Average earnings of birth cohorts of …

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Wage Premia for Education and Location, by Gender and Race in South Africa

Schultz, T. Paul; Mwabu, Germano - 1999

than for whites in 1993, and they increase for both race groups at higher levels of education. The lower quantity (or … whites and Africans in terms of both the quantity of education. As 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 …

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Decomposing lifetime-earnings differences between white, black, and hispanic families

Bodenschatz, Hope; Daniels, Gerald Eric <Jr.>; … - 2023 - This version: October 2023

race. We then decompose the differences in lifetime earnings using the recentered influence function and show that human …

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Gender and racial differences in the earnings penalty of working from home before and during the COVID-19 pandemic

Maia, Alexandre Gori; Lu, Yao - 2024

race before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil. Using a large and nationally representative longitudinal dataset …

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A social network analysis of occupational segregation

Buhai, Sebastian; Leij, Marco van der - 2006

This paper proposes a simple social network model of occupational segregation, generated by the existence of inbreeding bias among individuals of the same social group. If network referrals are important in getting a job, then expected inbreeding bias in the social structure results in different...

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The role of location in evaluating racial wage disparity

Black, Dan A.; Kolesnikova, Natalia; Sander, Seth G.; … - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2 (2013), pp. 1-18

's log wage is a function of education, experience, and race. We analyze this approach in a context where individuals live …

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Competiton and the gender wage gap: new evidence from linked employer-employee data in Hungary, 1986 - 2003

Lovász, Anna (contributor) - 2008

The overall gender wage gap fell from .31 to .15 between 1986 and 2003 following the transition to a free market in Hungary. During the same time period, firms faced increased competition from both new domestic and foreign firms due to the rapid liberalization measures implemented by the...

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Earnings functions and the measurement of the determinants of wage dispersion : extending Oaxaca's approach

Silber, Jacques (contributor) - 2007

This paper extends the famous Blinder and Oaxaca (1973) discrimination in several directions. First, the wage difference breakdown is not limited to two groups. Second, a decomposition technique is proposed that allows analysis of the determinants of the overall wage dispersion. The authors’...

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Monopsonistic discrimination, worker turnover, and the gender wage gap

Barth, Erling (contributor); Dale-Olsen, Harald (contributor) - 2009

Motivated by models of worker flows, we argue in this paper that monopsonistic discrimination may be a substantial factor behind the overall gender wage gap. On matched employer-employee data from Norway, we estimate establishment-specific wage premiums separately for men and women, conditioning...

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