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 … employment and unemployment. At their current state of development, models of statistical discrimination based on rational …

We develop a model of self-sustaining discrimination in wages, coupled with higher unemployment and shorter employment … values the model has two steady states, one corresponding to each population group. Discrimination can persist even if the …

discrimination which will not be eroded by market forces. Finally, the model provides the basis for a theory of involuntary … unemployment …

Some anti-discrimination laws have the perverse effect of harming the very class they were meant to protect. This paper … provides evidence that age discrimination laws belong to this perverse class. Prior to the enforcement of the federal law … as a threat. After the enforcement of the federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) in 1979, white male workers …

document that the employment decline was particularly severe for immigrants. Historically, immigrant men were more likely to be … loss arises because immigrants were less likely to work in jobs that could be performed remotely and suffered disparate … legal immigrants …

This paper reassesses the evidence on the assimilation and the changing labor market skills of immigrants to the United … States. We find strong evidence of labor market assimilation for most immigrant groups. For Asian and Mexican immigrants the … immigrants result entirely from changes in the immigrants' countries of origin …

Standard search and matching models of equilibrium unemployment, once properly calibrated, can generate only a small …

consistent with increasing inequality in every country, growth in residual wage inequality, rising unemployment, and reallocation … within and between industries. While the opening of trade yields welfare gains, unemployment and inequality within sectors … nonmonotonic effects on unemployment and inequality within sectors. As aggregate unemployment and inequality have within- and …

market frictions. We characterize the distributions of employment, unemployment, wages and income within and between sectors … as a function of structural parameters. We find that greater firm heterogeneity increases unemployment, wage inequality … frictions have non-monotonic effects on aggregate unemployment and inequality through within- and between-sector components …