Racial disparities in job finding and offered wages by Roland G. Fryer, Devah Pager and Jo¨rg L. Spenkuch

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Fryer, Roland G [author]

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Material type: Text

TextSeries: ; Volume 56, number 3Chicago : University of Chicago Press; 2013Content type:

text

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unmediated

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volume

ISSN:

00222186

Subject(s):

Labor and demographic economics -- Labor discrimination -- Discrimination
Labor and demographic economics -- Demographic economics -- Economics of minorities, races, indigenous peoples, and immigrants

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HB73 JOU

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Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Vol info	Copy number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode
Journal Article	Main Library Journal Article		Vol. 56, no.3 (pages 633-690)	SP17888	Not for loan	For in house only

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.

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