We discuss research on discrimination against blacks and other racial minorities in labor
market outcomes, highlighting fundamental challenges faced by empirical work in this area …

The counterfactual decomposition technique popularized by Blinder (1973, Journal of
Human Resources, 436–455) and Oaxaca (1973, International Economic Review, 693–709) …

Abstract The Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique is widely used to identify and
quantify the separate contributions of group differences in measurable characteristics, such …

The counterfactual decomposition technique popularized by Blinder (1973) and Oaxaca
(1973) is widely used to study mean outcome differences between groups. For example, the …

Following Boudon social disparities at educational transitions can be linked to primary and
secondary effects of social origin. Whereas primary effects describe social differentials in …

This analysis focuses on the college completion gap between underrepresented minority
students and White students, or the Hispanic-White and Black-White racial college …

In this paper, we estimate the rate of return to first degrees, Masters degrees and PhDs in
Britain using data from the Labour Force Survey. We estimate returns to broad subject …

The authors use matched employer-employee panel data on Belgian private-sector firms to
estimate the relationship between wage/productivity differentials and the firm's labor …

We conduct a comprehensive analysis of Mexican-American entrepreneurship. We find that
low levels of education and wealth explain the entire gap between Mexican immigrants and …

An intuitively appealing method for estimating gender wage gaps by industry is shown to
yield estimates that vary according to the arbitrary choice of left-out reference groups for non …