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 …

A significant challenge to empirically testing theories of discrimination has been the difficulty of identifying taste …-based discrimination and of distinguishing it clearly from statistical discrimination. This paper addresses this problem through a two …-part empirical test of taste-based discrimination. First, it constructs measures of revealed preferences, which establish that World …

Discrimination has been widely studied in the social sciences. Economists often categorize the source of discrimination … inaccurate statistical discrimination generates an identification problem for attempts to isolate the source of differential … of discrimination—to formally outline the identification problem: when not accounted for, inaccurate statistical …

There have been over 80 field experiments on traditional dimensions of discrimination in labor and housing markets … since 2000, in 23 countries. These studies nearly always find evidence of discrimination against minorities. However, the … estimates of discrimination in these studies can be biased if there is differential variation in the unobservable determinants …

This paper seeks to disentangle the impactof residential segregation from that of employment discrimination in …

This paper reviews some recent empirical analyses of the impact of affirmative action and anti-discrimination law on … seems more compatible with an earnings redistribution rather than an anti-discrimination program. 4)While many of the …

Labor-market discrimination measures are usually derived from between-group comparisons of market outcomes for favored … heterogeneous, one can relate variations in discrimination intensity to market outcomes within the disfavored group. We use this … approach to test for employment and wage discrimination against persons with various types of disabilities. Measures of social …

This chapter surveys the theoretical literature on statistical discrimination and affirmative action. This literature …