DISCRIMINATION AND THE EFFECTS OF DRUG TESTING ON BLACK EMPLOYMENT

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Wozniak, Abigail
• 署名单位: University of Notre Dame; National Bureau of Economic Research; IZA Institute Labor Economics
• 刊物名称: REVIEW OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0034-6535
• DOI: 10.1162/REST_a_00482
• 发表日期: 2015-07
• 页码: 548-566
• 关键词: wage inequality

摘要

A common assumption is that the rise of drug testing among U.S. employers must have had negative consequences for black employment. I use variation in the timing and nature of drug testing regulation to identify the impacts of testing on black hiring. I find that adoption of protesting legislation increases black employment in the testing sector by 7% to 30% and relative wages by 1.4% to 13.0%, with the largest shifts among low-skilled black men. The results are consistent with ex ante discrimination and suggest that drug testing may benefit African Americans by enabling nonusing blacks to prove their status to employers.