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Testing for Employee Discrimination Using Matched Employer-Employee Data: Theory and Evidence

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dc.creator Frijters, Paul
dc.creator Shields, Michael A.
dc.creator Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos
dc.creator Price, Stephen Wheatley
dc.date 2003
dc.date.accessioned 2013-10-16T07:08:18Z
dc.date.available 2013-10-16T07:08:18Z
dc.date.issued 2013-10-16
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10419/20052
dc.identifier ppn:366364111
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/20052
dc.description In this paper, we directly test Becker?s theory of employee discrimination using matched worker-workplace data from Britain. Based on a structural model with individual and firm heterogeneity, we develop and test two predictions. Firstly, if white employees have a taste for discrimination they should report lower levels of job satisfaction the larger the proportion of ethnic minorities at their workplace. Secondly, white employees? wages should also increase with the concentration of ethnic minority co-workers. Both hypotheses are strongly supported for white males in our data, after controlling for human capital and job amenity variables, though not for females. The white male wage premium for working amongst only ethnic minority co-workers, as compared to working only with whites, is about 12%. Neither of these effects operate via realised racial prejudice at the workplace or employees? feelings concerning job security.
dc.language eng
dc.publisher
dc.relation IZA Discussion paper series 807
dc.rights http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject J3
dc.subject J7
dc.subject ddc:330
dc.subject employee discrimination
dc.subject compensating differentials
dc.subject structural estimation
dc.subject wages
dc.subject job satisfaction
dc.subject Lohndifferenzierung
dc.subject Ethnische Diskriminierung
dc.subject Arbeitszufriedenheit
dc.subject Arbeitsplatz
dc.subject Schätzung
dc.subject Theorie
dc.subject Großbritannien
dc.title Testing for Employee Discrimination Using Matched Employer-Employee Data: Theory and Evidence
dc.type doc-type:workingPaper


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