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The Missing Link? Using LinkedIn Data to Measure Race, Ethnic, and Gender Differences in Employment Outcomes at Individual Companies

Berry, Alexander; Maloney, Elizabeth M.; Neumark, David - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Stronger enforcement of discrimination laws can help to reduce disparities in economic outcomes with respect to race, ethnicity, and gender in the United States. However, the data necessary to detect possible discrimination and to act to counter it is not publicly available - in particular, data...

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An Analysis of Quits, Dismissals, and Promotions at a Large Retail Firm

Giuliano, Laura; Levine, David I.; Leonard, Jonathon - Department of Economics, School of Business - 2006

Using data from a large U.S. retail firm, we examine how differences in race, age, and gender between a manager and a subordinate affect the subordinate’s rate of quits, dismissals, and promotions. These differences can have statistically significant and sometimes large effects— especially...

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La discrimination économique est-elle soluble dans la complexité ?

Gazier, Bernard - In: Revue de l'OFCE n° 114 (2010) 3, pp. 45-64

The evolution of the economic theories of discrimination exhibits a clear tendency towards an increased complexity. This contribution aims at examining and discussing this tendency. It contains three sections. The first deals with the neo-classical current, and shows how recent theories propose...

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Gender differences in earnings and labor supply in early career : evidence from Kosovo’s school-to-work transition survey

Pastore, Francesco; Sattar, Sarosh; Tiongson, Erwin R. - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2 (2013), pp. 1-34

, on average, women have lower education attainment than men but this educational disparity is masked among the sample of … to women’s education among employed women are low because there is little variation in educational attainment among the … to women’s education rise, confirming the lower productivity-related characteristics of non-employed women compared to …

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Toilets, Transgenders, and the Supreme Court

McGee, Robert W. - 2016

Various state legislatures have passed a law that prohibits transgender individuals from using certain public toilets. The legislation has been controversial. The Supreme Court has agreed to place this issue on its docket (Gloucester County School Board vs. G.G.). This article summarizes that...

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People Playing Games : The Human Face of Experimental Economics (Presidential Address)

Eckel, Catherine C. - 2011

Experiments can be used not only to test theory but also to measure preferences and assess heterogeneity of behavior. I discuss the design of experimental measures of ahruism and trust, as well as their uses in assessing how behavior varies across individuals, and across partners that a given...

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Toilets, Transgenders, and Property Rights

McGee, Robert W. - 2016

The North Carolina legislature passed a law that prohibits transgender individuals from using certain public toilets. The legislation has been controversial. Some entertainers have stated they will not hold concerts in North Carolina until the law is repealed. Some corporations have been...

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Ethnic and Gender Wage Disparities in Sri Lanka

Ajwad, Mohamed Ihsan; Kurukulasuriya, Pradeep - 2004

Ajwad and Kurukulasuriya examine wage inequalities in Sri Lanka's formal sector using data from the Sri Lanka Integrated Survey 1999-2000. The study aims to: Investigate whether the labor market is characterized by wage disparities among ethnic and gender groups. Identify the determinants of...

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COVID & CONQUER- Analyzing the Structural Causes of the Initial Socio-Economic Impact and Consequences of the COVID-19 Virus

Gambles, Paul; Fraser, James; Ung, Jureemas; Endo, Nuttika - 2022

At the time of writing this report, there have been over 33 million recorded cases of COVID-19 virus and over 1 million deaths. It’s important to note that there are conflicting claims that the recorded data may underestimate or overestimate the mortality and/or infection rate.Equally, it’s...

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Underrepresentation in STEM : Analyzing the Plight of Female, Racial Minority, and LGBTQIA+ Individuals in the United States and Offering Recommendations for Improvement

Secor, Katelyn - 2022

Across the United States, there is a dearth of women, underrepresented racial minority (URM), and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual, and many other terms (LGBTQIA+) community members in STEM-oriented academic majors and careers. While prior research has tended to...

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