H Holzer, D Neumark - Journal of Economic literature, 2000 - aeaweb.org
Economic research provides extensive evidence regarding discrimination against women and minorities, and some evidence on the redistributive effects of affirmative action …
We investigate the effects of female executives on gender-specific wage distributions and firm performance. Female leadership has a positive impact at the top of the female wage …
We integrate tools to monitor information acquisition in field experiments on discrimination and examine whether gaps arise already when decision makers choose the effort level for …
S Coate, GC Loury - The American Economic Review, 1993 - JSTOR
A key question concerning affirmative action is whether the labor-market gains it brings to minorities can continue without it becoming a permanent fixture in the labor market. We …
We investigate the potential costs and benefits of firms constituting a heterogeneous pool of directors relative to more homogeneous boards. We measure director heterogeneity along …
JG Altonji, CR Pierret - The quarterly journal of economics, 2001 - academic.oup.com
We show that if firms statistically discriminate among young workers on the basis of easily observable characteristics such as education, then as firms learn about productivity, the …
K Lang, JYK Lehmann - Journal of Economic Literature, 2012 - aeaweb.org
We review theories of race discrimination in the labor market. Taste-based models can generate wage and unemployment duration differentials when combined with either random …
J Hjort - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2014 - academic.oup.com
A body of literature suggests that ethnic heterogeneity limits economic growth. This article provides microeconometric evidence on the direct effect of ethnic divisions on productivity. In …
EP Lazear - Journal of political Economy, 1999 - journals.uchicago.edu
Common culture and common language facilitate trade between individuals. Individuals have incentives to learn the other languages and cultures so that they have a larger pool of …