unobserved productivity-linked attributes versus market discrimination as determinants of racial inequality in labor market …

merits of culture versus market discrimination as determinants of racial inequality in labor market outcomes. Our results are … unobserved productivity-linked attributes among Caribbean-English immigrants. There are regional and intertemporal variations in …

This paper assesses the impact of labor mobility on racial discrimination. We present an equilibrium search model that … market mobility decreases racial discrimination. … reveals an inverted U-shaped relationship between labor mobility and race-based wage differentials. We explore this …

, 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 …

labour market. Thirdly, we propose a measure of mobility based on our similarity measure, and estimate a regression model … that relates mobility to worker and job characteristics and to the economic cycle. Finally, these tools are included in an … unemployment duration model. The proposed methodology may be useful in labour intermediation by helping seekers to follow a …

We develop an on-the-job search model in which immigrants search for jobs through formal channels or networks, and the … network jobs in job-to-job transitions, whereas the effect is ambiguous in unemployment-to-job transitions. …

lack of compensating differentials for unemployment risk can arise in equilibrium when all workers are identical, and firms … differ, but do so only in offered job security (the probability that the worker is not sent into unemployment). In a setting … the distribution of firm-level unemployment risk. As a result, unemployment spells become persistent for low-wage and …