We examine racial disparities in key labor market outcomes for men and women over the past four decades, with a special emphasis on their evolution over the business cycle. Blacks have substantially higher and more cyclical unemployment rates than whites, and observable characteristics can...

Machine generated contents note: Part I Disparate Treatment -- 2 Gender and Race Discrimination in Retail Car -- Negotiations (with Peter Siegelman) -- 3 Toward Causal Explanation -- 4 Discrimination in Consummated Transactions -- 5 Legal Implications -- Part II Disparate Impact -- 6 Unequal...

Chapter 1: A Rationale for the Study of Intersectional Wage Discrimination -- Chapter 2: Theories of Discrimination and a Review of the Related Literature -- Chapter 3: Our Empirical Strategy: Mincer Earnings Functions and the Blinder-Oaxaca Technique -- Chapter 4: Estimating Wage Discrimination...