Black residential centralization is found to be an important determinant of black employment status when estimated across metropolitan areas (MAs) to avoid neighborhood selection. The effects are greatest in large MAs, for the young and elderly, and for individuals with less than a college...

Using a unique data set, this paper first documents that gaps in starting wages by race and sex persist after accounting for performance on the job. Evidence suggests that simple statistical discrimination, and not just taste discrimination, is partly responsible for race differences in starting...