Diversity in the Workplace
研究雇主在最优序贯搜索中，少数族裔因能力信号噪音更大而更难改变雇主先验信念，导致职场代表性不足或过度，并探讨了面试成本、技能水平、机会成本和解雇成本对多样性的影响。
We study minority representation in the workplace when employers engage in optimal sequential search and minorities convey noisier signals of ability than mainstream job candidates. The greater signal noise makes it harder for minorities to change employers' prior beliefs. When employers are selective, this leads to minority underrepresentation in the workplace. Diversity improves when the cost of interviewing, the average skill level of candidates, or the opportunity cost of not hiring increases. Reducing the cost of firing also increases minority representation. When employers are sufficiently unselective, the rigidity of employers' beliefs leads to overrepresentation of minorities.