Testing for Asymmetric Employer Learning and Statistical Discrimination

We test if firms statistically discriminate workers based on race when em- ployer learning is asymmetric. Using data from the NLSY79, we find evidence of asymmetric employer learning. In addition, employers statistically discrimi- nate against non-college educated black workers at time of hiring. We also find that employers directly observe most of the productivity of college graduates at hiring and learn very little over time about these workers

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Year of publication:	2020
Authors:	Ge, Suqin
Other Persons:	Moro, Andrea (contributor) ; Zhu, Beibei (contributor)
Publisher:	[2020]: [S.l.] : SSRN
Subject:	Theorie \| Theory \| Arbeitsproduktivität \| Labour productivity \| Lernprozess \| Learning process \| Personalbeschaffung \| Recruitment \| Asymmetrische Information \| Asymmetric information \| Schätzung \| Estimation \| Informationsökonomik \| Economics of information

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