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Wages, Sorting on Skill, and the Racial Composition of Jobs
Hirsch, Barry T.; MacPherson, David A. - 2021
, following standard controls. Such correlations can exist absent discrimination or as a result of discrimination. In wage level … discrimination helps determine the present pattern of job sorting, current discrimination cannot explain the relationship between … wages and racial density. Current discrimination reflected in racial wage gaps occurs within occupations or across …
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Wages, Sorting on Skill, and the Racial Composition of Jobs
Hirsch, Barry T.; Macpherson, David A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
, following standard controls. Such correlations can exist absent discrimination or as a result of discrimination. In wage level … discrimination helps determine the present pattern of job sorting, current discrimination cannot explain the relationship between … wages and racial density. Current discrimination reflected in racial wage gaps occurs within occupations or across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703474
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Experimental Evidence of Taste-Based Discrimination Against Overweight Workers
Pham-Kanter, Genevieve - 2015
employees and to make promotion recommendations. I find that there is discrimination against overweight workers when bonuses are … for being overweight. If bonuses are a measure of employee taste-based discrimination, these results suggest that some of … the weight penalty seen in observational studies is the result of employee taste-based discrimination …
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Testing for Employee Discrimination Using Matched Employer-Employee Data: Theory and Evidence
Frijters, Paul; Shields, Michael A.; Theodoropoulos, … - 2003
In this paper, we directly test Becker?s theory of employee discrimination using matched worker-workplace data from … white employees have a taste for discrimination they should report lower levels of job satisfaction the larger the …
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The relative earnings of young Mexican, Black, and White women
Antecol, Heather; Bedard, Kelly - 1999
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...
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The Gender Pay Gap Across Countries : A Human Capital Approach
Polachek, Solomon W. - 2014
The gender wage gap varies across countries. For example, among OECD nations women in Australia, Belgium, Italy and Sweden earn 80% as much as males, whereas in Austria, Canada and Japan women earn about 60%. Current studies examining cross-country differences focus on the impact of labor market...
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How the Human Capital Model Explains Why the Gender Wage Gap Narrowed
Polachek, Solomon W. - 2021
This paper explores secular changes in women's pay relative to men's pay. It shows how the human capital model predicts a smaller gender wage gap as male-female lifetime work expectations become more similar. The model explains why relative female wages rose almost unabated from 1890 to the...
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Micro foundations of earnings differences
Das, Tirthatanmoy; Polachek, Solomon W. - 2017
This paper examines how human capital based approaches explain the distribution of earnings. It assesses traditional, quasi-experimental, and new micro-based structural models, the latter of which gets at population heterogeneity by estimating individual-specific earnings function parameters....
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Beauty pays but does investment in beauty? : despite the large returns from an attractive appearance, the cost-effectiveness of investment in beauty is ambiguous
Lee, Soohyung - 2015
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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Racial and ethnic inequality in Latin America
Telles, Edward E.; Bailey, Stanley R.; Davoudpour, Shahin; … - 2023
This chapter examines socioeconomic inequality in Latin America through the lens of race and ethnicity. We primarily use national census data from the International Public Use Micro Data Sample (IPUMS). Since censuses use inconsistent measures of race and ethnicity, we also draw on two...
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