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Weinstein, Russell Lang, Kevin Cavounidis, Costas |
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The Boss is Watching: How Monitoring Decisions Hurt Black Workers The Economic Journal published online (27 September 2023). Also: https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/uead079 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Royal Economic Society (RES) Keyword(s): Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Black Studies; Discrimination; Discrimination, Employer; Discrimination, Job; Discrimination, Racial/Ethnic; Employment; Employment History; Income; Monitoring, Discriminatory; Racial Equality/Inequality; Racial Studies; Unemployment; Unemployment Duration Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. African Americans face shorter employment durations than similar Whites. We hypothesize that employers discriminate in acquiring or acting on ability-relevant information. In our model, monitoring Black, but not White, workers is self-sustaining. New Black hires were more likely fired by previous employers after monitoring. This reduces firms’ beliefs about ability, incentivizing discriminatory monitoring. We confirm our predictions that layoffs are initially higher for Black than non-Black workers, but that they converge with seniority and decline more with the Armed Forces Qualification Test for Black workers. Two additional predictions, lower lifetime incomes and longer unemployment durations for Black workers, have known empirical support. |
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Weinstein, Russell, Kevin Lang and Costas Cavounidis. "The Boss is Watching: How Monitoring Decisions Hurt Black Workers ." The Economic Journal published online (27 September 2023).
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