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Title: Uncovering Ethical Earnings in the US Labour Force

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Publication Year: 2015

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Abstract: The magnitude of earning excesses in the financial sector has been argued to be one of the causes of the 2007 crisis. Using the Current Population Survey (CPS) data, this study looks at the long-run behaviour of earnings by gender and racial groups across occupations in the US labour force from 1968 to 2011. At the intersection of occupational, gender and racial norms, this study shows that rent-seeking behaviour is a group phenomenon, not only specific to financial and managerial occupations, but it extends to most of the US labour force. There is in effect a pattern of unethical earnings across occupations for the dominant group in each occupation at the expense of other racial and gender groups.

Url: http://www.researchgate.net/publication/271500239_Uncovering_Ethical_Earnings_in_the_US_Labour_Force

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Authors: Charles, Aurlie; Vuji, Sunica

Publisher: University of Bath

Data Collections: IPUMS CPS

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure

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