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, ethnicity, and gender in the United States. However, the data necessary to detect possible discrimination and to act to counter … pictures to identify race, ethnicity, and gender. We show that one can use LinkedIn data to obtain reasonably reliable measures … of workforce demographic composition by race, ethnicity, and gender, based on validation exercises comparing estimates …
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This chapter reviews key literature studying the effects of wars on minority and underrepresented groups in U.S. labor markets in the 20th century. These labor markets, characterized by historically pervasive barriers to entry into certain occupations and industries, promotions, and fair pay for...
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state and federal minimum wage policies on gender, race, and ethnic inequality throughout the wage distribution, focusing on … gender, racial, and ethnic inequality in the present day …
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We study whether student-advisor gender and race composition matters for publication productivity of Ph.D. students in … introduction of doctoral programs in this country. We investigate the joint effects of gender and race for the whole sample and … female students working with male advisors when looking at the joint effects of gender and race for the white-white and black …
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Implementing a state-of-the-art machine learning technique for causal identification from text data (C-TEXT), we document that patents authored by female inventors are under-cited relative to those authored by males. Relative to what the same patent would be predicted to receive had the lead...
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Actual and perceived gender norms are key to understanding gender inequality in society. In this paper, using newly … collected nationally representative datasets from 60 countries that cover over 80% of the world population, we study gender … norms on two distinct policy issues: 1) basic rights, allowing women to work outside of the home, and 2) affirmative action …
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This article reviews evidence on the labor market performance of Hispanics in the United States, with a particular focus on the US-born segment of this population. After discussing critical issues that arise in the US data sources commonly used to study Hispanics, we document how Hispanics...
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distort incentives to mask across gender. Consistent with the framework, a survey reveals that students anticipate that female … sizable fraction of the gender gap in masking …
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. This study investigates the influence of gender bias in forming CEOs' business networks. Using transaction data of 1 … million Japanese firms, we find that CEOs of the same gender significantly trade more than those of the opposite gender … CEOs are male, such same-gender bias reduces the trading opportunities for females relative to male CEOs. Regarding …
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different regions of the world. The fraction of gender inequality explained by child penalties varies systematically with … minuscule fraction of gender inequality. But as economies develop -- incomes rise and the labor market transitions from … subsistence agriculture towards salaried work in industry and services -- child penalties take over as the dominant driver of …
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