Prejudice and Wages: An Empirical Assessment of Becker's The Economics of Discrimination Export

@article{citeulike:3487307, abstract = {doi: 10.1086/593073 We test the predictions from Becker's (1957) seminal work on employer prejudice and find that relative black wages (a) vary negatively with the prejudice of the marginal white in a state, (b) vary negatively with the prejudice in the lower tail of the prejudice distribution but are unaffected by the prejudice of the most prejudiced persons in a state, and (c) vary negatively with the fraction of a state that is black. Our estimates suggest that one-quarter of the racial wage gap is due to prejudice, with nontrivial consequences for black lifetime earnings.}, author = {Charles, Kerwin K. and Guryan, Jonathan}, citeulike-article-id = {3487307}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/593073}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/593073}, day = {1}, doi = {10.1086/593073}, journal = {Journal of Political Economy}, keywords = {discrimination, income, race, racism, wages}, month = {October}, number = {5}, pages = {773--809}, posted-at = {2008-11-07 12:25:28}, priority = {2}, title = {Prejudice and Wages: An Empirical Assessment of Becker's The Economics of Discrimination}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/593073}, volume = {116}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3487307 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3487307 N2 - doi: 10.1086/593073 We test the predictions from Becker's (1957) seminal work on employer prejudice and find that relative black wages (a) vary negatively with the prejudice of the marginal white in a state, (b) vary negatively with the prejudice in the lower tail of the prejudice distribution but are unaffected by the prejudice of the most prejudiced persons in a state, and (c) vary negatively with the fraction of a state that is black. Our estimates suggest that one-quarter of the racial wage gap is due to prejudice, with nontrivial consequences for black lifetime earnings. IS - 5 JF - Journal of Political Economy EP - 809 TI - Prejudice and Wages: An Empirical Assessment of Becker's The Economics of Discrimination VL - 116 SP - 773 KW - discrimination KW - income KW - race KW - racism KW - wages AU - Charles, Kerwin AU - Guryan, Jonathan PY - 2008/10/01/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/593073 ER -