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We study an economy with private and public sectors in which workers invest in imperfectly observable skills that are important to the private sector but not to the public sector. Government regulation allows native majority workers to be employed in the public sector with positive probability...
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with disabilities. This Review applies Fishkin’s theory to explore how disability law creates and perpetuates bottlenecks …
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channels through which occupational segregation and pay discrimination affect the overall gender wage gap in different sectors … model estimates confirm that gender-based pay discrimination is small in the government sector in Egypt and quite high by … was quite prevalent in state owned enterprises, amounting to half of the discrimination component. These findings …
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measures of salary discrimination that adjust for measured productivity may be flawed. We derive the magnitude of the bias …
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set out a model explaining why differences in discrimination at the stage of invitation for interviews can arise when … recruiters display identical discriminatory attitudes in both sectors. The estimation of this model shows that discrimination at … the invitation stage is a poor predictor of discrimination at the hiring stage. This suggests that many correspondence …
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This paper provides a simple explanation for why some minority groups are economically successful, despite being subject to government-mandated discriminatory policies. We study an economy with private and public sectors in which workers invest in imperfectly observable skills that are important...
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Almost fifty years ago in 1965, on the steps of the State Capital in Montgomery, Alabama, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., asked a crowd of twenty-five thousand "How long will prejudice blind the visions of men, darken their understanding, and drive bright-eyed wisdom from her sacred throne?" The...
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