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He Said, She Said, Let's Hear What the Data Say: Sexual Harassment in the Media, Courts , EEOC, and Social Science
(Kentucky Law Journal, 2013)
We examine whether two national newspapers (The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal) provide a realistic representation of sexual harassment in the workplace by comparing media coverage to empirical evidence on ...
Household Specialization and the Male Marriage Wage Premium
(Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2000)
Empirical research has consistently shown that married men have substantially higher wages, on average, than otherwise similar unmarried men. One commonly cited hypothesis to explain this pattern is that marriage allows ...
Voter Preferences and State Regulation of Smoking
(2015-12-17)
Voters' preferences for smoking restrictions in restaurants, bars, malls, indoor sporting events, and hospitals are consistent with state-level restrictions on smoking in each of these public areas. This analysis is based ...
Sex Discrimination in the Labor Market
(Foundations and Trends in Microeconomics, 2006)
This paper examines sources of gender pay disparity and the factors that contribute to this pay gap. Many researchers question the role of discrimination and instead attribute the residual pay gap to gender differences in ...
Skin-Tone Effects among African Americans: Perceptions and Reality
(American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, 2006)
It is commonly assumed that lighter skinned African Americans receive preferential treatment over darker skinned counterparts. Using individual data from three sources, this paper examines the influence of skin tone on ...
The New Labor Market for Lawyers: Will Female Lawyers Still Earn Less?
(Cardozo Women's Law Journal, 2003)
To examine the magnitude and source of the gender pay disparity among lawyers, this paper uses data from a large national survey reporting individual information for 1990 and 1993 on a wide array of work related and personal ...
Allocation of Time and Human Energy and Its Effects on Productivity
(Applied Economics, 1985)
The supply of effort on the job has been virtually ignored as a component of the effective supply of labour. Typically, labour supply models assume the worker chooses the utility-maximizing number of hours to supply on the ...
Education Match and Job Match
(The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1991)
Using a new data set, this paper gives evidence in support of the intuitive notion that overqualified workers are less satisfied with their jobs and are more likely to quit. However, training time is inversely related to ...
Male-Female Differences in Hourly Wages: The Role of Human Capital, Working Conditions, and Housework
(Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 1991)
This study uses a new data set from a 1986 survey of workers to examine simultaneously the wage effects of human capital, household responsibilities, working conditions, and on-the-job training. The analysis suggests that ...
Job Matching and Women's Wage-Tenure Profile
(Applied Economics, 1994)
Recently, researchers have challenged the validity of the dominant theories of wage growth, claiming that the observed positive relation between wages and tenure is an artefact of omitted job match quality. In sharp contrast ...