Shades of Discrimination: Skin Tone and Wages

By utilizing the Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality (MCSUI), a survey dataset that includes information on a salient aspect of each respondent's appearance (skin shade), the authors are able to examine four issues involving race and inequality in the United Stated. The first is whether skin t...

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Published in:The American economic review 2006-05, Vol.96 (2), p.242-245
Main Authors: Goldsmith, Arthur H., Hamilton, Darrick, Darity, William
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
African American culture
African Americans
Ancestry
Black white relations
Comparative studies
Economic models
Genotype & phenotype
Income inequality
Inequality
Labor market
Labor markets
Light
Physical appearance
Race
Racial differences
Racial discrimination
Racial identity
Skin color
Skin colour
Skin-Tone Discrimination and Economic Outcomes
Statistical significance
U.S.A
Urban universities
Wage differentials
Wages
Wages & salaries
White people
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Summary:By utilizing the Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality (MCSUI), a survey dataset that includes information on a salient aspect of each respondent's appearance (skin shade), the authors are able to examine four issues involving race and inequality in the United Stated. The first is whether skin tone differentials among blacks continue to be important in the aftermath of the civil rights movement. The second is the significance ascribed to cultural factors in explaining racial differences in economic outcomes. Third is the conventional belief that there is a fundamental difference in the understanding of race in the United States compared to Latin America. In the US, racial distinction is based largely on an individual's genotype (ancestry), while in Latin America it is predicated largely on an individual's phenotype (physical characteristics). Finally, the authors consider whether skin shade itself is an operative signal for discriminators in labor markets.
ISSN:0002-8282
1944-7981
DOI:10.1257/000282806777212152