Local labor markets and taste-based discrimination

Artikel

This article appeals to heterogeneity in workers' non-wage preferences to model taste-based discrimination. Firms hire both types of workers and pay lower wages to minority workers, whatever their taste for discrimination. A single prejudiced firm in the market produces a substantial wage gap in all firms. Consequently, discrimination allows unprejudiced firms to make non-zero profits, so that they have little incentive to drive out prejudiced firms. As the market does not eliminate discrimination, state intervention is required. Indirect policies do not affect the absolute wage gap between the two groups, but may be more likely to be used than direct policies.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Journal: IZA Journal of Labor Economics ; ISSN: 2193-8997 ; Volume: 5 ; Year: 2016 ; Issue: 5 ; Pages: 1-29 ; Heidelberg: Springer

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Monopsony; Segmented Labor Markets ; Labor Discrimination ; Oligopoly and Other Imperfect Markets
• Thema: Discrimination ; Oligopsony ; Wage gap

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Berson, Clémence
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Springer
• (wo): Heidelberg
• (wann): 2016

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: doi:10.1186/s40172-016-0045-9
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/152369
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ