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Ethnicity, Language, and Workplace Segregation: Evidence from a New Matched Employer-Employee Data Set / Judith K. Hellerstein, David Neumark.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hellerstein, Judith K.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w9037.
- NBER working paper series no. w9037
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wages--Hispanic Americans.
- Wages.
- Hispanic Americans--Economic conditions.
- Hispanic Americans.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Ethnicity, Language, and Workplace Segregation
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2002.
- Cambridge, Mass. : National Bureau of Economic Research, 2002.
- Summary:
- We describe the construction and assessment of a new matched employer-employee data set (the Decennial Employer-Employee Dataset, or DEED) that we have undertaken as a part of a broad research agenda to study segregation in the U.S. labor market. In this paper we examine the role of segregation by Hispanic ethnicity and language proficiency, contributing new, previously unavailable descriptive information on segregation along these lines, and evidence on the wage premia or penalties associated with this segregation. The DEED is much larger and more representative across regional and industry dimensions than previous matched data sets for the United States, and improvements along both of these dimensions are essential to isolating the importance of segregation by language and ethnicity in the workplace. Our empirical results reveal considerable segregation by Hispanic ethnicity and by English language proficiency. We find that Hispanic workers, but not white workers, suffer wage penalties from employment in a workplace with a large share of Hispanic workers, and even more so a large share of Hispanic workers with poor English language proficiency. In addition, we find that segregation of Hispanic workers among other Hispanics with similar English language proficiency does not reduce the penalties associated with poor own language skills.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- July 2002.
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