are from a logit or probit model. I describe a relatively simple method of performing a decomposition that uses estimates … from a logit or probit model. Expanding on the original application of the technique in Fairlie (1999), I provide a more …The Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique is widely used to identify and quantify the separate contributions of group …

market using official statistics since race can only be inferred from native language. Moreover, employers may think that … distinct phenotypes: Caucasian, mestizo and indigenous. We also randomly vary marital status across gender and phenotype. Hence …

an independent signal of the candidate's productivity. We introduce the potential for taste-based discrimination and … even a high-productivity candidate who is privately favoured by one agent, as may be the case in efforts to increase gender …

within the classroom. Do teachers give better grades to children of their own race, ethnicity or gender? A US nationally … question. I look at the effect of being assessed by a same race or same gender teacher conditionally on test scores, child … higher assessments to children of their own race, but not significantly higher assessments to children of their own gender …

disparities, and segregation. The use of race as a signal arises here, as in models of statistical discrimination, from imperfect … only minimal assumptions about the ex ante importance of race. …

workers with the same (observed) human capital but different appearance (race): unobserved productivity (skill), search … intensities and discrimination (Becker 1957) due to an appearance-based employer disutility factor. Because these sources affect …

in the racial unemployment gap vary systematically over the business cycle in a manner consistent with discrimination …

Decades of racial progress have led some researchers and policymakers to doubt that discrimination remains an important … cause of economic inequality. To study contemporary discrimination we conducted a field experiment in the low-wage labor …. Together these results point to the subtle but systematic forms of discrimination that continue to shape employment …

, and find that the absolute magnitude of the gender earnings gap is, in fact, smaller in the service sector. Decomposition … differences due to disadvantageous treatment of women. The latter two constitute estimates of gender discrimination. The results …, evidence suggests that gender discrimination will persist - discrimination explains about 60 percent of the gender wage gap in …

differs between genders and that of the gender pay gap differs between sectors. The analysis shows that little none of the … gender earnings gap in both the public and private sector can be explained by differences in observable characteristics …. Decomposition analysis further reveals that the contribution of differences in workplace characteristics to the public private …