Racial Discrimination in the Labor Market: Theory and Empirics
综述了劳动力市场中种族歧视的理论模型，包括基于偏好的模型和统计歧视模型，分析了它们对工资和失业差异的解释力，并指出了现有模型的不足和未来研究方向。
We review theories of race discrimination in the labor market. Taste-based models can generate wage and unemployment duration differentials when combined with either random or directed search even when strong prejudice is not widespread, but no existing model explains the unemployment rate differential. Models of statistical discrimination based on differential observability of productivity across races can explain the pattern and magnitudes of wage differentials but do not address employment and unemployment. At their current state of development, models of statistical discrimination based on rational stereotypes have little empirical content. It is plausible that models combining elements of the search models with statistical discrimination could fit the data. We suggest possible avenues to be pursued and comment briefly on the implication of existing theory for public policy.