heterogeneity both in terms of segregation and wage gaps across education levels, occupations, industries and sectors. Racial wage … majority racial groups that had during colonialism been highly segregated in terms of education, occupation, industry and … sector of work and facing a large institutionalized pay difference. This raises the question whether segregation and …

Background: Although unemployment rates are at historical lows, there is still a persistent gap between unemployment …. Conclusions: Lowering the disproportionate rate at which black men are incarcerated will not in itself eliminate the unemployment …

facing exogenous differences in the job finding and separation rates. We use our setting to study the racial unemployment gap … two groups both in the level and volatility of unemployment. We show that the racial unemployment gap is counter … unemployment is above average the gap increases by 0.6pp more than when aggregate unemployment is below average. In terms of policy …