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Imports, Unionization And Racial Age Discrimination In The Us, Jacqueline Agesa, Richard U. Agesa
Imports, Unionization And Racial Age Discrimination In The Us, Jacqueline Agesa, Richard U. Agesa
Economics Faculty Research
Past studies of the relationship between competition and racial wages find that domestic competition reduces racial wage discrimination of nonunion workers. This article examines the effects of foreign competition on racial wages of union and nonunion workers utilizing an empirical model which allows for cluster-adjusted SEs by industry. Such a procedure allows independence of observations across industries but not within industries, thereby not overstating the significance of industry invariant controls. In this analysis, clustered SEs prevent the overstatement of the significance of imports as a means to reduce earnings discrimination. We find evidence of a wage premium for nonunion white …