歧视与药物检测对黑人就业的影响

Discrimination and the Effects of Drug Testing on Black Employment

Review of Economics and Statistics · 2014
被引 61
人大 AFT50ABS 4

中文导读

利用美国各州药物检测法规出台时间和内容的差异,发现药物检测法规的通过使检测行业的黑人就业增加7%至30%,工资提高1.4%至13.0%,对低技能黑人男性影响最大,表明药物检测有助于非吸毒黑人向雇主证明自身状况,从而减少歧视。

Abstract

A common assumption is that the rise of drug testing among U.S. employers must have had negative consequences for black employment. I use variation in the timing and nature of drug testing regulation to identify the impacts of testing on black hiring. I find that adoption of protesting legislation increases black employment in the testing sector by 7 percent to 30 percent and relative wages by 1.4 percent to 13.0 percent, with the largest shifts among low-skilled black men. The results are consistent with ex ante discrimination and suggest that drug testing may benefit African Americans by enabling nonusing blacks to prove their status to employers.

药物检测黑人就业歧视低技能黑人男性