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Culture Matters: America’S African Diaspora And Labor Market Outcomes, Patrick Leon Mason
Culture Matters: America’S African Diaspora And Labor Market Outcomes, Patrick Leon Mason
Patrick L. Mason
This paper contrasts the explanatory power of the mono-cultural and diversity models of racial disparity. The mono-cultural model ignores nativity and ethnic differences among African Americans. The diversity model assumes that culture affects both intra- and interracial labor market disparity. The diversity model seeks to enhance our ability to understand the relative merits of culture versus market discrimination as determinants of racial inequality in labor market outcomes. Our results are consistent with the diversity model of racial inequality. Specifically, racial disparity consists of the following outcomes: 1) persistent racial wage and employment effects between both native and immigrant African Americans …
Identity Matters: Inter- And Intra-Racial Disparity And Labor Market Outcomes, Patrick Leon Mason
Identity Matters: Inter- And Intra-Racial Disparity And Labor Market Outcomes, Patrick Leon Mason
Patrick L. Mason
Standard econometric analysis of African American – white inequality incorporates racial classification as an exogenous binary variable. This approach masks identity differences among African Americans: empirically obfuscating the relative importance of racial self-identity and clouding our ability to understand the relative importance of unobserved productivity-linked attributes versus market discrimination as determinants of racial inequality in labor market outcomes. Our examination of identity heterogeneity among African Americans suggests racial wage disparity is most consistent with weak colorism, while genotype disparity best describes racial employment differences. Further, among African Americans, the wage data are not consistent with the hypothesis that black-mixed race …
Antidiscrimination Law, John Donohue
Antidiscrimination Law, John Donohue
John Donohue
This essay provides an overview of the central theoretical law and economics insights and empirical findings concerning antidiscrimination law across a variety of contexts including discrimination in labor markets, housing markets, consumer purchases, and policing. The different models of discrimination based on animus, statistical discrimination, and cartel exploitation are analyzed for both race and sex discrimination. I explore the theoretical arguments for prohibiting private discriminatory conduct in light of the tensions that exist between concerns for liberty and equality. I also discuss the complexities in empirically establishing the existence of discrimination and highlight the critical point that one cannot automatically …