Interfirm segregation and the black/white wage gap

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Carrington, WJ; Troske, KR
• 署名单位: University of Missouri System; University of Missouri Columbia
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/209888
• 发表日期: 1998
• 页码: 231-260
• 关键词: employment

摘要

This article studies interfirm racial segregation in two newly developed firm-level databases. We find that the interfirm distribution of black and white workers is close to what would be implied by random assignment. We also find that black workers are clustered in employers where managers, owners, and customers are also black. These findings may be reconciled by the facts that (a) there are not enough black employers to generate much segregation and that (b) other forces may systematically integrate black and white workers. Finally, we find that the black/white wage gap is primarily a within-firm phenomenon.