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Splitting Blacks? : Affirmative Action and Earnings Inequality within and Across Races

Leonard, Jonathan S. - 2010

Critics have said that affirmative action is at best ineffective and at worst counterproductive. In particular, it has been argued that if affirmative action helps anybody, it helps only the highly educated cream of the minority population, and may perversely work to the detriment of the...

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What Do Wage Differentials Tell Us About Labor Market Discrimination?

O'Neill, June; O'Neill, David M. - 2021

We examine the extent to which non-discriminatory factors can explain observed wage gaps between racial and ethnic minorities and whites, and between women and men. In general we find that differences in productivity-related factors account for most of the between group wage differences in the...

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Racial Discrimination in the Labor Market : Theory and Empirics

Lang, Kevin - 2011

We review theories of race discrimination in the labor market. Taste-based models can generate wage and unemployment …

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Discrimination and Racial Disparities in Labor Market Outcomes : Evidence from Wwii

Aizer, Anna; Boone, Ryan; Lleras-Muney, Adriana; Vogel, … - 2022

The 1940s witnessed substantial reductions in the Black-white earnings gap. We study the role that domestic WWII defense production played in reducing this gap. Exploiting variation across labor markets in the allocation of war contracts to private firms, we find that war production contracts...

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Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions

Arcidiacono, Peter; Kinsler, Josh; Ransom, Tyler - 2022

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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Employer Neighborhoods and Racial Discrimination

Agan, Amanda; Starr, Sonja B. - 2022

Using a large field experiment, we show that racial composition of employer neighborhoods predicts employment discrimination patterns in a direction suggesting in-group bias. Our data also show racial disparities in the geographic distribution of job postings. Simulations illustrate how these...

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Strike Three : Umpires' Demand for Discrimination

Parsons, Christopher A. - 2008

and pitcher match race/ethnicity. This effect only exists where there is little scrutiny of umpires' behavior - in … determine the outcome of the at-bat. If a pitcher shares the home-plate umpire's race/ethnicity, he gives up fewer runs per game …

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Discrimination at the Intersection of Age, Race, and Gender : Evidence from a Lab-in-The-Field Experiment

Lahey, Joanna - 2018

We use a laboratory experiment with randomized resumes and eyetracking to explore the effects of race on employment … discrimination over the lifecycle. We show race discrimination against prime-age black job applicants that diminishes into middle age … to younger white applicants, and we find no evidence that the signal strength of the applicant's address varies by race …

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Labor Market Information and Wage Differentials by Race and Sex

Neumark, David - 2021

, current performance, and race and sex is studied. OLS regressions of starting wages on current performance--which is measured …

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Labor Market Discrimination and Racial Differences in Premarket Factors

Carneiro, Pedro Manuel; Heckman, James J.; Masterov, … - 2021

factors and environments in explaining both cognitive and noncognitive ability differentials by ethnicity and race. Policies …

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