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Are Suburban Firms More Likely to Discriminate Against African-Americans?

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Steven Raphael (Univ Calif Berkeley)
Michael Stoll (University of California, Los Angeles)
HARRY HOLZER (Georgetown Public Policy Institute)

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This paper presents a test of the hypothesis that employers in suburban locations are more likely to discriminate against African-Americans than employers located in central cities. Using a difference-in-difference framework, we compare central city-suburban differences in racial hiring outcomes for firms where a white person is in charge of hiring (white employers, for short) to similar geographic differences in outcomes for firms where a black person is in charge of hiring (black employer). We find that both suburban black and white employers hire fewer blacks than their central-city counterparts. Moreover, the suburban/central city hiring gap among black employers is as large as, or larger than, that of white employers. Suburban black employers, however, receive many more applications from blacks and hire more blacks than do white firms in either location.

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Paper provided by Department of Economics, UC San Diego in its series University of California at San Diego, Economics Working Paper Series with number 1998-05.

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  1. Harry Holzer & Steven Raphael & Michael Stoll, 2006. "Will Employers Hire Ex-Offenders? Employer Checks, Background Checks, and Their Determinants," Berkeley Program on Housing and Urban Policy, Working Paper Series 1023, Berkeley Program on Housing and Urban Policy. [Downloadable!]
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  3. Gobillon, Laurent & Selod, Harris & Zenou, Yves, 2005. "The mechanisms of spatial mismatch," CEPR Discussion Papers 5346, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  4. Jens Ludwig & Greg Duncan & Joshua Pinkston, 2006. "Housing Vouchers and Economic Self-Sufficiency: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment," Berkeley Program on Housing and Urban Policy, Working Paper Series 1032, Berkeley Program on Housing and Urban Policy. [Downloadable!]
  5. Marianne Bertrand & Sendhil Mullainathan, 2004. "Are Emily and Greg More Employable Than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 94(4), pages 991-1013, September. [Downloadable!]
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  6. Harry J. Holzer & Steven Raphael & Michael A. Stoll, 2001. "Will Employers Hire Ex-Offenders? Employer Preferences, Background Checks, and Their Determinants," JCPR Working Papers 238, Northwestern University/University of Chicago Joint Center for Poverty Research.
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