scholarly journals Labor Market Discrimination and Racial Differences in Premarket Factors

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pedro Carneiro ◽  
James Heckman ◽  
Dimitriy Masterov
2005 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pedro Carneiro ◽  
James J. Heckman ◽  
Dimitriy V. Masterov

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pedro Manuel Carneiro ◽  
James J. Heckman ◽  
Dimitriy V. Masterov

1998 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
James J Heckman

The evidence on discrimination produced from the audit method is examined. Audits survey the average firm and not the marginal firm which determines the level of market discrimination. Taken on its own terms, there is little evidence of labor market discrimination from audit methods. The validity of audit methods is critically dependent on unverified assumptions about equality across race/gender groups of the distributions of unobserved (by audit designers) productivity components acted on by firms and about the way labor markets work. Audits can find discrimination when none exists and can disguise it when it does.


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