We evaluate the effects of high school exit exams on high school graduation, incarceration, employment and wages. We … exit exams on employment or the distribution of wages …

We develop a model of self-sustaining discrimination in wages, coupled with higher unemployment and shorter employment …

African Americans face shorter employment durations than apparently similar whites. We hypothesize that employers … previous employer, causing firms to discriminate in monitoring. We confirm the model's prediction that the unemployment hazard … longer unemployment durations for blacks, are known to be strongly empirically supported …

unemployment should be concentrated among those who are ultimately employed in high wage jobs. In fact, unemployment seems to be … similarity of the pattern of segmentation across 66 different countries. The paper goes on to consider how unemployment might be … understood in a labor market segmentation framework. Existing models of unemployment in a dual labor market suggest that …

youth. We believe that unemployment is generated in part by queuing for high-wage government jobs. We suggest that one … reason the unemployed do not take other employment while queuing may be a perceived or real government preference for hiring … substantial fraction of the currently unemployed youth would begin actively seeking employment which would supply them with the …

employment and unemployment. At their current state of development, models of statistical discrimination based on rational …We review theories of race discrimination in the labor market. Taste-based models can generate wage and unemployment … existing model explains the unemployment rate differential. Models of statistical discrimination based on differential …