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The gender gap in inter-firm mobility is an important contributor to the gender pay gap but is as yet unexplained. In a structural model of workplace choice, I show that the gender mobility gap can be understood as a consequence of women's typical roles as secondary earners in most households...
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This article appeals to heterogeneity in workers' non-wage preferences to model taste-based discrimination. Firms hire … both types of workers and pay lower wages to minority workers, whatever their taste for discrimination. A single prejudiced … firm in the market produces a substantial wage gap in all firms. Consequently, discrimination allows unprejudiced firms to …
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A central hypothesis about discrimination is that prejudice forces the stigmatized into low paying, undesirable jobs … emerge. By contrast in competitive free markets, exclusionary discrimination often occurs but does not reduce workers' pay … discrimination is misguided: exclusion does not necessarily imply disadvantage; a shortfall in pay does not necessarily imply that …
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toward gay men. A one standard deviation increase in taste-discrimination attitudes against gay men decreased their access to … occupations by 9.6%. Furthermore, a one standard deviation increase in statistical-discrimination attitudes against gay men … applicants expressed a higher level of taste- and statistical-discrimination attitudes compared to 2006-2007. A gay rights …
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toward gay men. A one standard deviation increase in taste-discrimination attitudes against gay men decreased their access to … occupations by 9.6%. Furthermore, a one standard deviation increase in statistical-discrimination attitudes against gay men … applicants expressed a higher level of taste- and statistical-discrimination attitudes compared to 2006-2007. A gay rights …
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This article presents a theory of labor discrimination based on the behavior of economic agents that maximize utility … and profits. The article makes use of a monopsony that hires workers that have the same labor productivity, to focus on … perfect discrimination; discrimination by quantities of labor hired; and discrimination by types of labor hired. The article …
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toward gay men. A one standard deviation increase in taste-discrimination attitudes against gay men decreased their access to … occupations by 9.6%. Furthermore, a one standard deviation increase in statistical-discrimination attitudes against gay men … applicants expressed a higher level of taste- and statistical-discrimination attitudes compared to 2006-2007. A gay rights …
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there is discrimination against immigrants in a dual labor market with unemployment. Discrimination is of the type "equal …
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Discrimination models have diffivulties to study discrimination without assuming that prejudiced firms are more …' preferences to obtain a persistent discrimination. Firms hire both thpes of workers and pay a lower wage to the workers … discriminated against whatever their taste for discrimination. A single prejudiced firm leads to a substancial wage gap in all firms …
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Using matched employer-employee data from the state of Georgia, this paper investigates how differences in wage responsiveness contribute to the determination of observed wage differentials between documented and undocumented workers. Facing fewer employment opportunities, undocumented workers...
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