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Title: Statistical Discrimination and the Early Career Evolution of the Black-White Wage Gap
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Oettinger, Gerald S. |
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Statistical Discrimination and the Early Career Evolution of the Black-White Wage Gap Journal of Labor Economics 14,1 (January 1996): 52-78. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2535324 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Keyword(s): Discrimination; Discrimination, Racial/Ethnic; Labor Economics; Modeling; Wage Differentials; Wage Gap A simple dynamic model of statistical discrimination is developed and tested. The model improves on earlier static models both by allowing ex ante uncertainty about worker productivity to be resolved as on-the-job performance is observed and by generating several testable empirical implications. These predictions are tested using a sample of young men from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, producing mixed evidence for the model. The main empirical result is that no black- white wage gap exists at labor force entry but that one develops as experience accumulates, mainly because blacks reap smaller gains from job mobility. Photocopy available from ABI/INFORM 13362.00 |
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Oettinger, Gerald S. "Statistical Discrimination and the Early Career Evolution of the Black-White Wage Gap." Journal of Labor Economics 14,1 (January 1996): 52-78.
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