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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 …
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In this paper we review research findings from the 1980s and early 1990s on race and gender pay gaps. In addition. we present some evidence from the Current Population Surveys (1972, 1982 and 1989) regarding the impact of shifts in the industrial composition of employment and in interindustry...
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job-to-job mobility to study policy spillovers in the context of three local minimum wage increases. Estimated spillover …
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Gendered-grammar languages like Spanish are spoken by 39% of the world's population. In a field experiment in partnership with a Spanish-speaking online platform for technology positions, ads randomly selected to use gender-neutral language receive a larger share of female applicants for...
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We introduce a model of two-sided statistical discrimination in which worker and firm beliefs are complementary. Firms … both empirical analysis designed to detect discrimination and policy meant to alleviate it. Affirmative action is much less … effective than in traditional statistical discrimination models. More generally, we demonstrate the futility of one …
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discrimination' on the basis of men's taste for distance from women in the same way differences between other groups in work and … housing have been explained. Rather, this paper constructs a 'pollution' theory model of discrimination in which new female …
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policies not to hire women in particular occupations and to exclude men from other occupations. A model of discrimination is …
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