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Mar 15, 2021

Have you heard of “resume whitening”?

Racial discrimination in the job market can occur not only in the wage outcome but also in the early stage of recruitment. The latter also substantially contributes to economic inequality by deterring minority groups from occupational attainment. There is an on-going discussion on policy reform that pressures employers for a…

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“Whitening” method
“Whitening” method

Mar 15, 2021

College Premium

Education is the key element to tighten the economic gap among the members of society. College education is seen as a form of investment in human capital, with expected returns of higher wages and generous employment benefits. However, people might not realize that compensation for education varied across different racial…

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Mar 13, 2021

Understanding Asian’s income and the gap within

After the substantial immigration and refugee settlement in the 1970s and 1980s, Asian Americans have continued to emerge as the US’s fastest-growing racial group. As mentioned in the previous blog, Asian has the highest median earners among all racial groups in the United States. …

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Occupational disparity
Occupational disparity

Mar 12, 2021

Intersect between race and gender

This blog is an expansion on a classmate’s writing. She and many others have overlooked the concept of “intersectionality”when addressing the gender discrimination in workplace. Intersectionality recognizes that gender disparity means different things across racial groups. …

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Mar 11, 2021

Why should we care about racial income inequality?

Inequality has always been present in the US’s labor market and its uninterrupted increase since the 2008 recession has attracted much negative attention among workers, researchers, and policymakers. According to OECD’s data of 2019, the US ranked 37th in countries with the least inequality which places the US at the…

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Why should we care about racial/ethnicity income inequality?
Why should we care about racial/ethnicity income inequality?
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