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The Wage Gap between Francophones and Anglophones: A Canadian Perspective, 1970 to 2000

Albouy, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

Quebec, but only by 10 points Canada-wide, largely because the wages of Quebec Anglophones fell by 15 points relative to … by rising Francophone education levels. In Quebec, the declining number and relative wages of Anglophone workers is best …

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The Rising (and then Declining) Significance of Gender

Goldin, Claudia - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2002

In the past two decades gender pay differences have narrowed considerably and a declining significance of gender has pervaded the labor market in numerous ways. This paper contends that in the first several decades of the twentieth century there was a rising significance of gender. The emergence...

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Orchestrating Impartiality: The Impact of "Blind" Auditions on Female Musicians

Goldin, Claudia; Rouse, Cecilia - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1997

Discrimination against women has been alleged in hiring practices for many occupations, but it is extremely difficult to demonstrate sex-biased hiring. A change in the way symphony orchestras recruit musicians provides an unusual way to test for sex-biased hiring. To overcome possible biases in...

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Breaking the Glass Ceiling? The Effect of Board Quotas on Female Labor Market Outcomes in Norway

Bertrand, Marianne; Black, Sandra E.; Jensen, Sissel; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

In late 2003, Norway passed a law mandating 40 percent representation of each gender on the board of publicly limited liability companies. The primary objective of this reform was to increase the representation of women in top positions in the corporate sector and decrease gender disparity in...

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Biological Gender Differences, Absenteeism and the Earning Gap

Ichino, Andrea; moretti, enrico - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

signaling model in which employers cannot directly observe workers' productivity, and therefore use observable characteristics … %u2013 including absenteeism %u2013 to set wages. Since men are absent from work because of health and shirking reasons … difference declines with seniority, as employers learn more about their workers' true productivity. Finally, we calculate the …

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Production Function and Wage Equation Estimation with Heterogeneous Labor: Evidence from a New Matched Employer-Employee Data Set

Hellerstein, Judith K.; Neumark, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004

productivity of women is less than that of men, but not by enough to fully explain the gap in wages, a result that is consistent … deferred wages. We find a productivity premium for marriage equal to that of the wage premium, and a productivity premium for … that both the wage and productivity profiles are rising but concave to the origin (consistent with profiles quadratic in …

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The US Gender Pay Gap in the 1990s: Slowing Convergence

Blau, Francine; Kahn, Lawrence - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004

and male wages in the 1990s compared to the 1980s. We found that changes in human capital did not contribute to the trends …

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The Effect of Adolescent Experience on Labor Market Outcomes: The Case of Height

Persico, Nicola; Silverman, Dan; Postlewaite, Andrew - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004

to the race and gender gaps. We exploit variation in an individual's height over time to explore how height affects wages …. Controlling for teen height essentially eliminates the effect of adult height on wages for white males. The teen height premium is …

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The Measured Black-White Wage Gap Among Women is Too Small

Neal, Derek - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2002

Taken as a whole, the literature on black-white wage inequality suggests that racial gaps in potential wages are much … larger among men than women, and further that one can accurately assess black-white gaps in potential wages among women … conventional wisdom. I provide several estimates of the black-white gap in potential wages for the year 1990 using data from the …

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Beyond Signaling and Human Capital: Education and the Revelation of Ability

Bayer, Patrick; Arcidiacono, Peter; Hizmo, Aurel - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

turn use education to statistically discriminate, paying wages that reflect the average productivity of workers with the … paid in accordance with their own ability, while the wages of high school graduates are initially completely unrelated to … differences in wages, education, and the returns to ability. In particular, we find no racial differences in wages or returns to …

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