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Racial Discrimination in the Labor Market : Theory and Empirics

Lang, Kevin - 2011

We review theories of race discrimination in the labor market. Taste-based models can generate wage and unemployment … existing model explains the unemployment rate differential. Models of statistical discrimination based on differential … employment and unemployment. At their current state of development, models of statistical discrimination based on rational …

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Is affirmative action in employment still effective in the 21st century?

Amano-Patiño, Noriko; Aramburu, Julian; Contractor, Zara - 2022

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Is affirmative action in employment still effective in the 21st century?

Amano-Patiño, Noriko; Aramburu, Julian; Contractor, Zara - 2022

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Population with criminal records and racial disparity in labor markets

Boatner, Jasmine - In: IZA journal of labor policy 9 (2019) 1, pp. 1-13

Background: Although unemployment rates are at historical lows, there is still a persistent gap between unemployment …. Conclusions: Lowering the disproportionate rate at which black men are incarcerated will not in itself eliminate the unemployment …

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Measuring the welfare costs of racial discrimination in the labor market

Gramozi, Almarina; Palybos, Theodōros; Zachariadis, Marios - In: Economic inquiry 61 (2023) 2, pp. 232-252

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Fiscal policy, labour market, and inequality : diagnosing South Africa's anomalies in the shadow of racial discrimination

D'Agostino, Giorgio; Giuli, Francesco; Lorusso, Marco; … - 2020

Inequality in South Africa is the enduring legacy of racial discrimination. We use a dynamic perspective to show the linkages between persistent effects of discrimination in the labour market and the efficacy of redistributive fiscal policy in reducing inequality. We present a machine-learning...

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Racial discrimination and labor markets

Ashenfelter, Orley - 1970

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Customer discrimination and employment outcomes : theory and evidence from the French labor market

Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Decreuse, Bruno; Laouénan, Morgane - 2014

The paper investigates the link between the over-exposure of African immigrants to unemployment in France and their …

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Racial discrimination in the US labor market : employment and wage differentials by skill

Borowczyk-Martins, Daniel; Bradley, Jake; Tarasonis, Linas - 2014

In the US labor market the average black worker is exposed to a lower employment rate and earns a lower wage compared to his white counterpart. Lang and Lehmann (2012) argue that these mean differences mask substantial heterogeneity along the distribution of workers' skill. In particular, they...

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Racial discrimination in the US labor market : employment and wage differentials by skill

Borowczyk-Martins, Daniel; Bradley, Jake; Tarasonis, Linas - 2014

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