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

By K. K. Charles, Jonathan Guryan. Journal of Political Economy, 2008

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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Is tolerance good or bad for growth? (2010, unknown): “Extreme but clarifying examples involve Jews in Nazi Germany and blacks under apartheid in South Africa; and Charles and Guryan (2008) show that the share of blacks in U.S.”
Discrimination in the Age of Algorithms (2018, background): “One paper provided some empirical evidence to support this prediction, showing that the prevalence of racial prejudice within a state or region (as measured by survey data from the General Social Survey) is systematically related to the size of racial wage gaps (Charles & Guryan 2008).”
Firms and Labor Market Inequality: Evidence and Some Theory (2018, unknown): “, Charles and Guryan, 2008, 2011). 2Many of the issues about the interpretation of firm-specific wage setting closely parallel issues that were raised in the earlier literature on industry-specific wage premiums – see e.g., Slichter (1950), Katz (1986), Krueger and Summers (1988), Gibbons and Katz (”
Taste‐Based or Statistical Discrimination: The Economics of Discrimination Returns to its Roots (2013, background): “Zussman is an example of what Charles and Guryan (2011) call ‘direct tests’ of discrimination models.”
Field Experiments on Discrimination (2016, background): “If the fraction of discriminating employers in the economy is sufficiently large, a wage differential will emerge in equilibrium between otherwise identically productive minority and majority employees and this wage differential will be a reflection of the distaste parameter of the marginal employer”
Racial Discrimination in the Labor Market: Theory and Empirics (2012, unknown): “Charles and Guryan (2008) attempt to test this prediction directly.”
Competition and Gender Prejudice: Are Discriminatory Employers Doomed to Fail? (2009, unknown): “Recent work shows how prejudicial tastes can lead to market discrimination against females in setups characterized by imperfect competition (2)Charles and Guryan (2008) provides clear tests of the main predictions in Becker’s model concerning the relationships between relative wages of black workers”
Sexual orientation discrimination in the United Kingdom’s labour market: A field experiment (2015, background): “Studies suggest that as long as employers’ biases towards sexual orientation minorities persist, the extent of unequal treatment will be directly proportional to the strength of this bias (Becker, 1957; Charles and Guryan, 2008; England, 1994; Jaret, 1995).”