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Cavounidis, Costas, Lang, Kevin and Weinstein, Russell (2022) The boss is watching : how monitoring decisions hurt black workers. The Economic Journal . ISSN 0013-0133. (In Press)
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Abstract
African Americans face shorter employment durations than similar whites. We hypothesize that employers discriminate in acquiring or acting on ability-relevant information. In our model, monitoring black but not white workers is self-sustaining. New black hires were more likely fired by previous employers after monitoring. This reduces firms’ beliefs about ability, incentivizing discriminatory monitoring. We confirm our predictions that layoffs are initially higher for black than non-black workers but that they converge with seniority and decline more with AFQT for black workers. Two additional predictions, lower lifetime incomes and longer unemployment durations for black workers, have known empirical support.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | |||||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor | |||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | |||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | African Americans -- Employment, Discrimination in employment | |||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | The Economic Journal | |||||||||
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press | |||||||||
| ISSN: | 0013-0133 | |||||||||
| Official Date: | 2022 | |||||||||
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| Status: | Peer Reviewed | |||||||||
| Publication Status: | In Press | |||||||||
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| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | |||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 3 October 2022 | |||||||||
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