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and improves his team's chance of winning. The results suggest that standard measures of salary discrimination that adjust …
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The extent to which discrimination can explain racial wage gaps is one of the most divisive subjects in the social …, provides a lower bound on the extent of discrimination in the labor market. Taken at face value, our estimates imply that … workers, but learn about their marginal product over time. However, we cannot rule out other forms of discrimination …
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, discrimination, job search, and labor markets more generally …
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. Evidence examining whether age discrimination is a barrier for seniors as they try to increase their work lives through the … common practice of “bridge” jobs is also presented. After discussing the evidence that measures age discrimination, economics … and legal research that seeks to determine to what extent the federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act and state …
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's (1957) seminal work on employer discrimination - something which has not previously been done in the large economics … discrimination literature. Using rich data on racial prejudice from the General Social Survey, we find strong support for all of the …
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Detecting racial discrimination using observational data is challenging because of the presence of unobservables that … may be correlated with race. Using data made public in the SFFA v. Harvard case, we estimate discrimination in a setting …
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This chapter surveys the theoretical literature on statistical discrimination and affirmative action. This literature …
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discrimination patterns in a direction suggesting in-group bias. Our data also show racial disparities in the geographic distribution … Black neighborhoods, Black applicants are doubly disadvantaged: discrimination patterns disfavor them, and they have fewer …
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fair rewards for their skills and so they may invest less in skill formation. If this is the case, discrimination may still …
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It is often argued that informal labor markets in developing countries promote growth by reducing the impact of regulation. On the other hand informality may reduce the amount of social protection offered to workers. We extend the wage-posting framework of Burdett and Mortensen (1998) to allow...
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