Fryer, Roland G, Jr. <br/><br/>
Racial Disparities in Job Finding and Offered Wages / 
Roland G. Fryer, Jr, Devah Pager, Jörg L. Spenkuch. 
 - Cambridge, Mass.  National Bureau of Economic Research  2011. 
 - 1 online resource:  illustrations (black and white); 
 - NBER working paper series  no. w17462 .
 - Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research)  no. w17462. .
<br/><br/> September 2011. 
<br/><br/> The extent to which discrimination can explain racial wage gaps is one of the most divisive subjects in the social sciences. Using a newly available dataset, this paper develops a simple empirical test which, under plausible conditions, provides a lower bound on the extent of discrimination in the labor market. Taken at face value, our estimates imply that differential treatment accounts for at least one third of the black-white wage gap. We argue that the patterns in our data are consistent with a search-matching model in which employers statistically discriminate on the basis of race when hiring unemployed workers, but learn about their marginal product over time. However, we cannot rule out other forms of discrimination. 
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