The paper explores how competition from international trade affects gender wage
discrimination in two open economies. According to neoclassical theory, if discrimination is …

Historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) pay higher underwriting fees to issue
tax-exempt bonds, compared with similar non-HBCUs, apparently reflecting higher costs of …

Does employment discrimination vary in degree or character across public and private labor
market sectors? Prior research cannot fully address this question because it typically relies …

We look at the natural experiment represented by the Brazilian trade liberalization from the
early 1990s to study the effect of increased competition in the market for final goods on the …

We use the cross-state, cross-time variation in bank deregulation across the US states to
assess how improvements in banking systems affected the labor market opportunities of …

Using a merged employer-employee panel dataset of more than 13,000 firms relative to the
Belgian private sector for the 1999–2010 period, this paper aims to quantify wage …

This paper assesses the impact of competition on racial discrimination. The dismantling of
inter-and intrastate bank restrictions by US states from the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s …

Abstract According to Becker's (1957) theory of taste-based employer discrimination, pure
economic rents are necessary for discrimination to be observed in the labor market …

This article appeals to heterogeneity in workers' non-wage preferences to model taste-
based discrimination. Firms hire both types of workers and pay lower wages to minority …

During the 1990s and the 2000s Israel, a country ethnically divided into a dominant Jewish
majority and a disadvantaged mostly Muslim Palestinian minority, underwent a transition …