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Author: Flanagan, Robert J.
Resulting in 3 citations.
1. Flanagan, Robert J.
Discrimination Theory, Labor Turnover, and Racial Unemployment Differentials
Journal of Human Resources 13,2 (Spring 1978): 187-207.
Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/145358
Cohort(s): Older Men, Young Men
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Keyword(s): Discrimination; Discrimination, Racial/Ethnic; Quits; Racial Differences; Unemployment; Wages

This paper examines theoretically and empirically the feedback from racial wage differences to unemployment differentials among experienced workers. Although the received theory predicts that the removal of racial wage differentials will increase the relative unemployment of blacks, this conclusion rests on a demand oriented analysis of discrimination which omits the effect of market discrimination on racial differences in quit behavior, movements between market and nonmarket activity, and related unemployment. The empirical work in the paper analyzes turnover flows and the probability of incurring unemployment, conditional on turnover by race. In clarifying the role of racial wage differentials on supply behavior, the results challenge the traditional interpretation of the effect of wage discrimination.
Bibliography Citation
Flanagan, Robert J. "Discrimination Theory, Labor Turnover, and Racial Unemployment Differentials." Journal of Human Resources 13,2 (Spring 1978): 187-207.
2. Flanagan, Robert J.
Labor Force Experience, Job Turnover, and Racial Wage Differentials
Review of Economics and Statistics 56,4 (November 1974): 521-529.
Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1924467
Cohort(s): Older Men, Young Men
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keyword(s): Educational Returns; Job Turnover; Racial Differences; Schooling; Unemployment; Wage Differentials; Work Experience

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This paper seeks to estimate the influence of an unstable work history on wages, the value of alternative forms of post-school experience for whites and blacks, and to isolate important differences in the wage structure for each race which are the source of net racial wage differentials. The analysis indicates that the single most important source of racial hourly wage differentials is the lower level of and return to black schooling investments. The differences in returns among the older cohort are partially attributable to the fact that only whites experience occupational advancement as a part of the return to their investments.
Bibliography Citation
Flanagan, Robert J. "Labor Force Experience, Job Turnover, and Racial Wage Differentials." Review of Economics and Statistics 56,4 (November 1974): 521-529.
3. Flanagan, Robert J.
Labor Turnover, Racial Unemployment Differentials, and the Dual Labor Market Hypothesis
Report, Manpower Administration, U.S. Department of Labor, 1974
Cohort(s): Older Men, Young Men
Publisher: U.S. Department of Labor
Keyword(s): Discrimination, Racial/Ethnic; Labor Market, Secondary; Layoffs; Migration; Occupational Segregation; Quits; Schooling; Unemployment; Vocational Education; Wages

The main thrust of the report is an analysis of racial unemployment differentials in the context of received theories of racial discrimination. Noting that the average duration of unemployment is similar for white and black males, the analytical emphasis is on the flow of new unemployment which is decomposed into turnover flows and conditional unemployment probabilities. The links between racial wage discrimination and racial unemployment differentials are also examined. The results include findings that differences in quit and layoff rates between the races are quite small, that the practice of wage discrimination or occupational segregation tends to widen racial unemployment differentials, and compensatory post-school training investments do not seem to be the main road to racial wage equality among males. The analysis did not support the dual market view of racial wage differences.
Bibliography Citation
Flanagan, Robert J. "Labor Turnover, Racial Unemployment Differentials, and the Dual Labor Market Hypothesis." Report, Manpower Administration, U.S. Department of Labor, 1974.