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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"Racial Wage Gap"”.
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Essays on the Economics of Entrepreneurship
… to become entrepreneurs, thereby narrowing the racial entrepreneurship gap. This phenomenon is accompanied by a widening of the racial wage gap - a 1 percent increase in state level unemployment causes Black wages to fall by 5 percent while nominal White wages remain unchanged. This is not a …
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Three Essays on Employer Learning and Statistical Discrimination
… learning, and derives testable hypotheses on racial statistical discrimination under different processes of employer learning. Testing the model with data from the NLSY79, we find that employers statistically discriminate against black workers on the basis of both education and race in the …