Resumé
Sprog | Engelsk |
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Tidsskrift | Labour Economics |
Vol/bind | 49 |
Sider | 106-127 |
Antal sider | 62 |
ISSN | 0927-5371 |
DOI | |
Status | Udgivet - dec. 2017 |
Bibliografisk note
Published online: 28. September 2017
Emneord
- Employment and wage gaps
- Discrimination
- Job search
- Sorting
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Racial Discrimination in the U.S. Labor Market : Employment and Wage Differentials by Skill. / Borowczyk-Martins, Daniel; Bradley, Jake; Tarasonis, Linas.
I: Labour Economics, Bind 49, 12.2017, s. 106-127.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › peer review
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T1 - Racial Discrimination in the U.S. Labor Market
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AU - Borowczyk-Martins,Daniel
AU - Bradley,Jake
AU - Tarasonis,Linas
N1 - Published online: 28. September 2017
PY - 2017/12
Y1 - 2017/12
N2 - In the U.S. the average black worker has a lower employment rate and earns a lower wage compared to his white counterpart. Lang and Lehmann (2012) argue that black-white wage and employment gaps are smaller for high-skill workers. We show that a model combining employer taste-based discrimination, search frictions and skill complementarities can replicate these regularities, and estimate it using data from the U.S. manufacturing sector. We find that discrimination is quantitatively important to understand differences in wages and job finding rates across workers with low education levels, whereas skill differences are the main driver of those differences among workers with high education levels.
AB - In the U.S. the average black worker has a lower employment rate and earns a lower wage compared to his white counterpart. Lang and Lehmann (2012) argue that black-white wage and employment gaps are smaller for high-skill workers. We show that a model combining employer taste-based discrimination, search frictions and skill complementarities can replicate these regularities, and estimate it using data from the U.S. manufacturing sector. We find that discrimination is quantitatively important to understand differences in wages and job finding rates across workers with low education levels, whereas skill differences are the main driver of those differences among workers with high education levels.
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KW - Discrimination
KW - Job search
KW - Sorting
KW - Employment and wage gaps
KW - Discrimination
KW - Job search
KW - Sorting
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