Task-based discrimination
By: Hurst Erik, Rubinstein Yona and Shimizu, Kazuatsu
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BookPublisher: The American Economic Review Description: 114(6), Jun, 2024: p.1723-1768.Subject(s): Task-Based Discrimination, Occupational Sorting, Racial Skill Gaps, Labor Market Outcomes, Black-White Disparities, Task Requirements, Interpersonal Interaction, Aggregate Task Prices, Employment Barriers, Economic Inequality, Proxy Measures, Workforce Segregation
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The American Economic ReviewSummary: This study introduces a task-based framework to analyze racial disparities in labor market outcomes, focusing on how occupational sorting interacts with discrimination, skill gaps, and task pricing. It emphasizes that racial barriers for Black workers vary depending on the interpersonal demands of specific jobs. A newly defined task—measuring the degree of interaction required—serves as a proxy for identifying discrimination across occupations. The model quantifies how these factors contribute to persistent Black-White differences in employment and earnings, offering a nuanced lens on structural inequality in the labor market.. Authors develop a task-based model of occupational sorting to identify and quantify the effect of discrimination, racial skill gaps, and aggregate task prices on Black-White differences in labor market outcomes over time. At the heart of our framework is the idea that the size and nature of racial barriers faced by Black workers vary by the task requirements of each job. We define a new task that measures the extent to which individuals interact with others as part of their job. We show that this measure is a good proxy for the extent of discrimination in the economy.-Reproduced
https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20220234
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This study introduces a task-based framework to analyze racial disparities in labor market outcomes, focusing on how occupational sorting interacts with discrimination, skill gaps, and task pricing. It emphasizes that racial barriers for Black workers vary depending on the interpersonal demands of specific jobs. A newly defined task—measuring the degree of interaction required—serves as a proxy for identifying discrimination across occupations. The model quantifies how these factors contribute to persistent Black-White differences in employment and earnings, offering a nuanced lens on structural inequality in the labor market.. Authors develop a task-based model of occupational sorting to identify and quantify the effect of discrimination, racial skill gaps, and aggregate task prices on Black-White differences in labor market outcomes over time. At the heart of our framework is the idea that the size and nature of racial barriers faced by Black workers vary by the task requirements of each job. We define a new task that measures the extent to which individuals interact with others as part of their job. We show that this measure is a good proxy for the extent of discrimination in the economy.-Reproduced
https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20220234
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