Education and labor market discrimination

"Using a model of statistical discrimination and educational sorting, we explain why blacks get more education than whites of similar cognitive ability, and we explore how the Armed Forces Qualification Test (AFQT), wages, and education are related. The model suggests that one should control fo...

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Published in:The American economic review 2011-06, Vol.101 (4), p.1467-1496
Main Authors: Lang, Kevin, Manove, Michael
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
African Americans
Arbeitsmarkt
Arbeitsmarktchance
Armed forces
Ausbildung
Bildung
Bildungsabschluss
Bildungsbeteiligung
Bildungsniveau
Bildungsqualität
Black people
Black white relations
Capital formation
Cognition & reasoning
Cognitive ability
Discount rates
Diskriminierung
Earnings
Economic models
Economic theory
Economics of education
Education
Educational attainment
Einkommensunterschied
Employers
Employment
Employment discrimination
Ethnische Gruppe
Ethnography
Hispanoamerikaner
Human capital
Hypotheses
Labor economics
Labor market
Labor markets
Labour market
Level of education
Lohnhöhe
Military personnel
Productivity
Race
Racial discrimination
Rasse
Rassismus
Returns to education
School dropouts
Studies
U.S.A
USA
Wage differential
Wage differentials
White people
Workers
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Summary:"Using a model of statistical discrimination and educational sorting, we explain why blacks get more education than whites of similar cognitive ability, and we explore how the Armed Forces Qualification Test (AFQT), wages, and education are related. The model suggests that one should control for both AFQT and education when comparing the earnings of blacks and whites, in which case a substantial black-white wage differential emerges. We reject the hypothesis that differences in school quality between blacks and whites explain the wage and education differentials. Our findings support the view that some of the black-white wage differential reflects the operation of the labor market." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku). Die Untersuchung enthält quantitative Daten. Forschungsmethode: empirisch-quantitativ; empirisch. Die Untersuchung bezieht sich auf den Zeitraum 1996 bis 2000.
ISSN:0002-8282
1944-7981
DOI:10.1257/aer.101.4.1467