discrimination driven by prejudice plays a part in explaining this residual wage gap. Whereas racial prejudice has substantially … declined over the past 30 years, the wage differential has slightly converged overtime. This "prejudice puzzle" raises other … boom of jobs in contact with customers has on blacks' labor market earnings. I develop a search-matching model with …

elective race is ascending, poised to become one of the dominant frameworks for understanding race in the United States …. Because we are in a period of transition, many Americans still are wedded to fairly traditional attitudes about race. For … these Americans, race is still an objective, easily ascertainable fact determined by the process of involuntary racial …