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The paper explores the role of workers' expectations as am original explanation for the puzzling long run persistence of discrimination against some minorities in the labor market. A game of incomplete information is presented, showing that ex ante identical groups of workers may be characterized by unequal outcomes in equilibrium due to their different beliefs, even though discriminatory tastes and statistical discrimination by employers have disappeared. Wrong beliefs of being discriminated against are self-confirming in this circumstance, being the ultimate cause of a lower percentage of promotions which supports these wrong beliefs.
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Keywords: discrimination ; workers' expectations ; self-confirming beliefs ; Other versions of this item:
Find related papers by JEL classification: J71 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination - - - Hiring and Firing J15 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Minorities and Races; Non-labor Discrimination J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity D84 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Expectations; Speculations C79 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Other
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