Audit studies testing for discrimination have been criticized because applicants from different groups may not appear … unobservable determinants of productivity can still generate spurious evidence of discrimination in either direction. This paper … shows how to recover an unbiased estimate of discrimination when the correspondence study includes variation in applicant …

. Discrimination exhibits little geographical dispersion, but two digit industry explains roughly half of the cross-firm variation in … quintile of racial discrimination responsible for nearly half of lost contacts to Black applicants in the experiment … findings establish that systemic illegal discrimination is concentrated among a select set of large employers, many of which …

The traditional model of taste discrimination in labor markets presumes perfect substitution, making it unsuitable for … the measurement of discrimination across job assignments. We extend the model to explain cross-assignment discrimination …-assignment discrimination depends upon racial productivity differences, the productivity x prejudice interaction, technology, relative labor …

; displaced workers ; racial and gender wage gap ; discrimination ; heterogeneous human capital …