Job queues, discrimination, and affirmative action
研究美国平权行动对不同种族群体失业率的影响，发现平权行动改变了工作队列顺序，对非白人男性产生负面冲击，可能延长其失业持续时间。
If employers have different Becker-type discrimination coefficients for different demographic groups, then the implementation of affirmative action may have a differential impact on those groups. We estimate two vector autoregressive models of the U.S. economy, including the unemployment rates of four demographic groups. We find that a job queue existed before the implementation of affirmative action and that affirmative action changed the ordering of the job queue in manner that had a negative impact on nonwhite males. We find evidence that affirmative action may have increased the unemployment rate of nonwhite males by increasing their duration of unemployment.