Local labor markets and taste-based discrimination
Abstract 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 g...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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2016-04-01
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| Series: | IZA Journal of Labor Economics |
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| Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40172-016-0045-9 |