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 …

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 …

workers. I develop a dynamic (search-matching-bargaining) model of taste-based employer discrimination with on-the-job search … by workers. Using data from NLSY79, I find that the extent of discrimination is significantly lower than what has been … estimated elsewhere, although they vary slightly across specifications used. Discrimination accounts for between 5 percent to 12 …