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disparities between groups. We measure the effects of these policies on racial pay differences in Brazil. We find that nonwhites … allocative costs of race-based preferences may be relatively large in Brazil. …
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In Brazil, different employers report different racial classifications for the same worker. We use the variation across …
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This paper examines differences in two important components of non-wage compensation, employer provided health insurance and pensions, across African Americans and the whites in the United States. Using data from the Current Population Survey (CPS) and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth...
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This paper is part of the Global Repository of Income Dynamics (GRID) project cross‐country comparison of earnings inequality, volatility, and mobility. Using data from the U.S. Census Bureau's Longitudinal Employer‐Household Dynamics (LEHD) infrastructure files, we produce a uniform set of...
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Earnings differential between white and black workers present a decreasing trend for younger cohorts in Brazil. We …
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This work contributes to the literature that estimates racial and gender imbalances in Brazilian municipal political representation. For this, we use data from the 2016 and 2020 mayoral and councilor elections in order to investigate the extent to which black women, black men and white women are...
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According to Becker's (1957) theory of taste-based employer discrimination, pure economic rents are necessary for discrimination to be observed in the labor market. Increased competition and reduced rents in the market for final goods should therefore lead to reduced labor market discrimination....
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The social science literature has done much to document pervasive racial discrimination in Brazil and there is little … attempted to quantify the impact of ethnic discrimination in Brazil. Using data culled from the Pesquisa National por Amostra de … Brazil, using the Oaxaca decomposition methodology. In addition, we use a quantile regression approach to see whether the …
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between whites and the African descendent population (pretos and pardos) in Brazil. We estimate quantile Mincer earnings … pretos. Thus the common belief in Brazil that a better position in the socio-economic scale grants a fairer treatment in the … education, including improved early learning environments, is key to reduce inter-racial earnings inequality in Brazil, specific …
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disparities between groups. We measure the effects of these policies on racial pay differences in Brazil. We find that nonwhites … allocative costs of race-based preferences may be relatively large in Brazil …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012909128