The effect of negative shifts in public opinion on the economic lives of minorities is unknown. We study the role of …-Chinese rhetoric that emerged with the COVID-19 pandemic, and associated changes in employment status and earnings. Using Current … Population Survey (CPS) data from January 2019 to May 2021, we find that, unlike other minorities, Asians who worked in …

Hostility towards minorities may sometimes have economic rather than racial motives. Labour market fears, or concerns …

boom of jobs in contact with customers has on blacks' labor market earnings. I develop a search-matching model with … bargaining to predict the negative impact which of the share of these contact jobs has on blacks' earnings in the presence of …. My estimates show that black men's relative earnings are lower in areas where the proportions of prejudiced individuals …

imprisonment and unemployment and race. The model suggests that penal practices are shaped by the labor market conditions of a … imprisonment in general) to manufacturing output and black unemployment …