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Title: Essays on Statistical Discrimination and on the Payoff to Publishing in Economics Journals
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Fadlon, Yariv |
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Essays on Statistical Discrimination and on the Payoff to Publishing in Economics Journals Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University, 2010 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) Keyword(s): Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Discrimination; Discrimination, Racial/Ethnic; Racial Equality/Inequality; Skills; Wage Gap; Wages Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This dissertation is comprised of three essays. The first essay tests the empirical validity of a statistical discrimination model that incorporates employer's race. I show that if an employer statistically discriminates less against an employee that shares the same race (match) than an employee who does not share the same race (mismatch), then a match employee's wage correlates with measures of skill (AFQT) more than a mismatch employee's wage. Using data from the NLSY97, which includes information about the racial background of employees and their supervisors, I find support for this prediction for young black and white male employees after controlling for sample selection. The second essay tests whether the theoretic model that explains the racial wage gap can also explain the gender wage gap. Specifically, I test whether the correlation between AFQT and wage is stronger for a employer-employee couple that shares the same gender than for a couple with opposite genders. I find that the data does not support this hypothesis. |
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Fadlon, Yariv. Essays on Statistical Discrimination and on the Payoff to Publishing in Economics Journals. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University, 2010. |