Getting a Foot in the Door: “Learning,” State Dependence, and the Racial Integration of Firms
通过分析一战期间俄亥俄州辛辛那提市企业种族就业序列的状态依赖模型，发现需求侧也存在学习效应：首次雇佣黑人会改变企业未来的种族雇佣决策。
Economists have emphasized supply-side learning when explaining long-term trends in racial income differences. This article demonstrates that learning also occurred on the demand side. Estimation of a state-dependence model of the sequence of racial employment outcomes of firms in Cincinnati, Ohio, during World War I shows that the introduction of black workers into a previously all-white firm generated new experiences within the firm, altering its future racial employment decisions.This suggests that more research should be done on how firms and labor markets processed information about workers and how that influenced worker opportunities.