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Changes in Labor Market Discrimination Over Time

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  • Orley Ashenfelter

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This article offers some evidence on what effect changes in discriminatory practices in labor markets may have had on the relative earnings of black workers. Interest focuses on estimating the extent of any change in the relative earnings of nonwhite workers which may be attributed to changes in discrimination in the postwar period and testing hypotheses about the effect which cyclical swings in aggregate labor market activity may have had on discrimination. The results suggest that there was little change in the extent of discrimination against black men over the period 1950 to 1966, that there was a significant reduction in the extent of discrimination against black women over this period, and that cyclical swings in aggregate labor market activity had little effect on the extent of discrimination.

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  • Orley Ashenfelter, 1970. "Changes in Labor Market Discrimination Over Time," Journal of Human Resources, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 5(4), pages 403-430.
    • Handle: RePEc:uwp:jhriss:v:5:y:1970:i:4:p:403-430
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    4. Muhammad Asali & Rusudan Gurashvili, 2020. "Labour market discrimination and the macroeconomy," Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 28(3), pages 515-533, July.
    5. David Card & Alan B. Krueger, 1992. "School Quality and Black-White Relative Earnings: A Direct Assessment," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College, vol. 107(1), pages 151-200.
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    10. David Neumark & Patrick Button, 2014. "Did Age Discrimination Protections Help Older Workers Weather the Great Recession?," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 33(3), pages 566-601, June.
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    15. Jeff Biddle & Daniel S. Hamermesh, 2011. "Cycles of Wage Discrimination," NBER Working Papers 17326, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

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