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Occupational Segregation, Wages and Profits When Employers Discriminate by Race or Sex
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In this paper, the authors analyzed the occupational and wage aspects of discrimination as if they were logically separate and their effects additive, through the development of a model which marries the wage differential approach of Becker [1] to the approach emphasizing the "crowding" effects of occupational segregation originally noticed by Edgeworth[3] and developed by Bergmann [2].Abstract:
tomary to analyze the occupational and wage aspects of discrimination as if they were logically separate and their effects additive.1 In this paper the two aspects are treated in a unified way, through the development of a model which marries the wage differential approach of Becker [1] to the approach emphasizing the "crowding" effects of occupational segregation originally noticed by Edgeworth[3] and developed by Bergmann [2]. The result allows a clearer view of the distri-read more
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Economics and Identity
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The Gender Wage Gap: Extent, Trends, and Explanations
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Gender Differences in Pay
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The Gender Wage Gap: Extent, Trends, and Explanations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide new empirical evidence on the extent of and trends in the gender wage gap, using PSID microdata over the 1980-2010, which shows that women's work force interruptions and shorter hours remain significant in high skilled occupations, possibly due to compensating differentials.
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Men and women at work: Sex segregation and statistical discrimination
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TL;DR: In this article, the determinants of sex segregation in occupations employing both men and women are investigated. But, little evidence is found that employers' practices reflect efficient and rational responses to sex differences in skills and turnover costs.
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The Economics of Discrimination
TL;DR: The second edition of "The Economics of Discrimination" has been expanded to include three further discussions of the problem and an entirely new introduction which considers contributions made by others in recent years and some of the more important problems remaining as discussed by the authors.
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The Economics of Imperfect Competition
TL;DR: The Economics of Imperfect Competition (Robinson, 1933a) as discussed by the authors was written by Joan Robinson, who also began her long intellectual friendship with Richard Kahn, after only one year of studying economics.
economics of discrimination
TL;DR: The second edition of The Economics of Discrimination has been expanded to include three further discussions of the problem and an entirely new introduction which considers the contributions made by others in recent years and some of the more important problems remaining.
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The Effect on White Incomes of Discrimination in Employment
TL;DR: In this article, a model embodying the "crowding" hypothesis was used to estimate the effects on white incomes of a reduction in discrimination, and it was shown that whites with only an elementary education might have a once-for-all loss on the order of 10 percent.
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Poverty and discrimination
TL;DR: The authors examined the causes of poverty and racial discrimination, paying special attention to the interaction between poverty and race discrimination, and found that race discrimination was a major cause of poverty in America.