Background: Although unemployment rates are at historical lows, there is still a persistent gap between unemployment … labor market outcomes depending on race and ethnicity, even when controlling for a criminal record and premarket skills …. Conclusions: Lowering the disproportionate rate at which black men are incarcerated will not in itself eliminate the unemployment …

emphasis on their evolution over the business cycle. Blacks have substantially higher and more cyclical unemployment rates than … comparatively higher risk of job loss. In contrast, the Hispanic-white unemployment rate gap is comparatively small and is largely …

terms of policy, we study the implications of different inflation regimes on the racial unemployment gap. Higher trend … inflation increases both the level of the racial unemployment gap and the magnitude of its response to shocks … facing exogenous differences in the job finding and separation rates. We use our setting to study the racial unemployment gap …

terms of policy, we study the implications of different inflation regimes on the racial unemployment gap. Higher trend … inflation increases both the level of the racial unemployment gap and the magnitude of its response to shocks … facing exogenous differences in job finding and separation rates. We use our setting to study the racial unemployment gap …

In order to explain the joint fluctuations of output, inflation and the labor market, this paper first develops a … general equilibrium model that integrates a theory of equilibrium unemployment into a monetary model with nominal price … significantly lower elasticity of marginal costs with respect to output. This helps to explain the sluggishness of inflation and the …

race. Our results show that the real interest rate has a positive effect on the relative unemployment of black men to white …Monetary policy has been historically concerned with controlling inflation, using the interest rate as its main tool …. However, such policies are not gender- or race-neutral. This paper explores econometrically the effect of changes in the …

in their unemployment rate and not a decline in labour force participation rate. Policymakers should take account of …

high-skill workers. In this paper we show that a model of employer taste-based discrimination in a labor market … workers. We use the model to undertake a structural decomposition and conclude that discrimination resulting from employer …