TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fryer,Roland G.
AU  - Pager,Devah
AU  - Spenkuch,Jörg L.
TI  - Racial disparities in job finding and offered wages
SN  - 00222186
AV  - HB73 JOU 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Labor and demographic economics
KW  - Labor discrimination
KW  - Discrimination
KW  - Demographic economics
KW  - Economics of minorities, races, indigenous peoples, and immigrants
N2  - The extent to which discrimination can explain racial wage gaps is one of the most divisive issues in the social sciences. Using a newly available data set, this paper develops a simple empirical test that, under plausible (but not innocuous) conditions, provides a lower bound on the extent of discrimination in the labor market. Taken at face value, our estimates imply that differential treatment accounts for at least one-third of the black-white wage gap. We argue that the patterns in our data are most naturally rationalized through a search-matching model in which employers statistically discriminate on the basis of race when hiring unemployed workers but learn about their marginal product over time
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1934590
ER  -