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Several studies using observational data suggest that ethnic discrimination increases in downturns of the economy. We investigate whether ethnic discrimination depends on labor market tightness using data from correspondence studies. We utilize three correspondence studies of the Swedish labor...
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rates from employment, and has shown little improvement over the last 40 years. Furthermore, even among those who work … the racial gaps in this involuntary part-time employment are large even after controlling for observable characteristics …
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wages that remains unexplained after including a wide array of proxies for productivity. What is absent from the residual … any directly observable measure of productivity with which to adjust differentials in wages in trying to infer whether a … particular group suffers from discrimination. The ideal solution would be individual-level productivity data that can be compared …
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Chapter 1: A Rationale for the Study of Intersectional Wage Discrimination -- Chapter 2: Theories of Discrimination and a Review of the Related Literature -- Chapter 3: Our Empirical Strategy: Mincer Earnings Functions and the Blinder-Oaxaca Technique -- Chapter 4: Estimating Wage Discrimination...
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This paper presents a model where wage differences between men and women arise from taste-based discrimination and monopsonistic mechanisms. We show how preferences against women affect heterogeneity in firms’ pay policies in the context of an imperfect labour market, deriving a test for the...
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This paper explores the issue of discrimination against Asian migrants in the Australian labour market using a unique panel data set, the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia (LSIA). This paper estimates models of the probability of being unemployed for Asian and non-Asian migrants...
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wages that remains unexplained after including a wide array of proxies for productivity. What is absent from the residual … - is any directly observable measure of productivity with which to adjust differentials in wages in trying to infer whether … a particular group suffers from discrimination. The ideal solution would be individual-level productivity data that can …
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