Racial discrimination in the U.S. labor market: employment and wage differentials by skill

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Racial discrimination in the U.S. labor market: employment and wage differentials by skill

In the U.S. the average black worker has a lower employment rate and earns a lower wage compared to his white counterpart. Lang and Lehmann (2012) argue that black-white wage and employment gaps are smaller for high-skill workers. We show that a model combining employer taste-based discrimination, s...

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Main Authors:	Borowczyk-Martins, Daniel, Bradley, Jake, Tarasonis, Linas
Format:	Article
Published:	Elsevier 2017
Subjects:	Employment and wage gaps; Discrimination; Job search; Sorting
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/46993/

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