Speech
The Disconnect between Inflation and Employment in the New Normal: A speech at \"Certain Uncertainty: Tax Policy in Unsettled Times\" National Tax Association 49th Annual Spring Symposium, Washington, D.C., May 16, 2019
Brainerd, Elizabeth (2019-05-16)
Speech , Paper 1064

Report
Importing equality? The effects of increased competition on the gender wage gap
Brainerd, Elizabeth; Black, Sandra E. (1999)
It is now well documented that the gender wage gap declined substantially in the 1980s, despite rising overall wage inequality. While Blau and Kahn (JoLE 1997) attribute much of this improvement to gains in women's relative labor market experience and other observable characteristics, a substantial part of the decline in the gender wage gap remains unexplained, and may be due to reduced discrimination against women in the labor market. This paper tests the hypothesis (based on Becker 1957) that increased globalization in the 1980s forced employers to reduce costly discrimination against women ...
Staff Reports , Paper 74