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Title: RACIAL/ETHNIC DIFFERENCES IN NON-WORK AT WORK

Citation Type: Working Paper

Publication Year: 2017

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Abstract: Evidence from the American Time Use Survey 2003-12 suggests the existence of small but statistically significant racial/ethnic differences in time spent not working at the workplace. Minorities, especially men, spend a greater fraction of their workdays not working than do white non-Hispanics. These differences are robust to the inclusion of large numbers of demographic, industry, occupation, time and geographic controls. They do not vary by union status, public- private sector attachment, pay method or age; nor do they arise from the effects of equal- employment enforcement or geographic differences in racial/ethnic representation. The findings imply that measures of the adjusted wage disadvantages of minority employees are overstated by about 10 percent.

Url: https://www.nber.org/papers/w23096.pdf

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Authors: Hamermesh, Daniel, S; Genadek, Katie, R; Burda, Michael

Series Title: NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES

Publication Number: 23096

Institution: NBER

Pages: 23

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Data Collections: IPUMS CPS

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Race and Ethnicity

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