, that frictions (sand-in-the-wheels) may decrease unemployment and that the equilibrium is determined by two simple …

Stronger enforcement of discrimination laws can help to reduce disparities in economic outcomes with respect to race …, ethnicity, and gender in the United States. However, the data necessary to detect possible discrimination and to act to counter …

job-to-job mobility to study policy spillovers in the context of three local minimum wage increases. Estimated spillover …

We introduce a model of two-sided statistical discrimination in which worker and firm beliefs are complementary. Firms … both empirical analysis designed to detect discrimination and policy meant to alleviate it. Affirmative action is much less … effective than in traditional statistical discrimination models. More generally, we demonstrate the futility of one …

integration pathbreakers in the success and speed with which integration occurs. In our model of labor market discrimination …