title

'Discrimination and Skill Differences in an Equilibrium Search Model'

author

'Audra J. Bowlus and Zvi Eckstein'

url

'http://www.jstor.org/stable/826969'

abstract

'We analyze an equilibrium search model with three sources for wage and unemployment differentials among workers with the same (observed) human capital but different appearance (race): unobserved productivity, search intensities, and discrimination due to an appearance-based employer disutility factor. We show that the structural parameters are identified using labor market survey data. Estimation results for a black and white high school graduate sample imply: black productivity is 3.3% lower than white productivity; the employer's disutility factor is 31% of the white's productivity level; and 56% of firms have a disutility factor toward blacks.'

journal

'International Economic Review'

year

'2002'

Undefined

'00206598, 14682354'

'4'

'1309--1345'

'[Economics Department of the University of Pennsylvania, Wiley, Institute of Social and Economic Research, Osaka University]'

'43'