Racial Discrimination in the U.S. Labor Market: Employment and Wage Differentials by Skill

Daniel Borowczyk-Martins, Jake Bradley, Linas Tarasonis

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Resumé

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.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftLabour Economics
Vol/bind49
Sider (fra-til)106-127
Antal sider62
ISSN0927-5371
DOI
StatusUdgivet - dec. 2017

Bibliografisk note

Published online: 28. September 2017

Emneord

  • Employment and wage gaps
  • Discrimination
  • Job search
  • Sorting

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Borowczyk-Martins, Daniel ; Bradley, Jake ; Tarasonis, Linas. / Racial Discrimination in the U.S. Labor Market : Employment and Wage Differentials by Skill. I: Labour Economics. 2017 ; Bind 49. s. 106-127.
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