Sant'Anna, Pedro C.; Sardoschau, Sulin; Schmeißer, Aiko - 2026
Empirical studies of racial wage disparities typically rely on self-reported race and treat racial categories as fixed … employerascribed race do not match, and employers disagree in their classification of the same worker. To quantify how race is … constructed, we estimate a "race function" describing how employers map phenotypic cues, self-identification, local context …
