Education and Labor Market Discrimination

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Lang, Kevin; Manove, Michael
• 署名单位: Boston University
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0002-8282
• DOI: 10.1257/aer.101.4.1467
• 发表日期: 2011
• 页码: 1467-1496
• 关键词: RACIAL-DIFFERENCES; School quality; black; EMPLOYMENT; earnings; gap

摘要

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. (JEL I21, J15, J24, J31, J71)