Racial Discrimination in Economic LifeCompilation of essays on the economic implications of racial discrimination in employment in the USA - includes papers on income differences according to race, employment policy of discrimination in respect of equal opportunity, discrimination in organized baseball (sport), neighbourhood racial segregation, etc., and includes a mathematical analysis and several models of discrimination in the labour market. Graphs, references and statistical tables. |
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ability adjustment aggregate employment American League analysis annual player draft assume baseball players batting average Becker black players black workers business cycle changes coefficient competition costs cumulative curve differences differentials disparity earnings economic effect employer equal equilibrium estimate expected Figure firms frequency distribution function games won higher hiring improvement income distribution income to persons increase individual investment labor force labor markets less lower major league baseball marginal product measure median income ment minimum wage Negro neighborhood nonpitchers nonwhite and white nonwhite income nonwhite relative nonwhite to white normal employment occupations percent percentage percentiles population poverty poverty line proportion of blacks quantiles race racial discrimination Ratio-at-Quantiles regression relative income salary sample schooling season segregation statistical teenagers theory tion tipping point types of labor U.S. Congress variables w₂ white and nonwhite white income ratios white ratio white workers women