Black job applicants and the hiring officer's race

Industrial and Labor Relations Review

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 267-287

  Stoll, Michael A ^a   Raphael, Steven ^b   Holzer, Harry J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 4644249356     PISSN: 00197939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/001979390405700206     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Bates, Timothy. 1993. "Banking on Black Enterprise: The Potential of Emerging Firms for Revitalizing Urban Economies." Washington, D.C.: Joint Center for Political and Economics Studies.
2. Bates, Timothy. 1994. "Utilization of Minority Employees in Small Business: A Comparison of Nonminority and Black-Owned Urban Enterprises." Review of Black Political Economy, Vol. 23 (Summer), No. 1, pp. 113-21.
3. Becker, Gary. 1971. The Economics of Discrimination. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
4. Bendick, Marc, Jr., Charles W. Jackson, and Victor A. Reinoso. 1994. "Measuring Employment Discrimination through Controlled Experiments." Review of Black Political Economy, No. 1 (Summer), pp. 25-48.
5. Carrington, William, Kristin McCue, and Brooks Pierce. 1995. "Using Establishment Size to Measure the Impact of Title VII and Affirmative Action." Mimeo, Department of Economics, John Hopkins University.
6. Carrington, William J., and Kenneth R. Troske. 1998. "Interfirm Segregation and the Black/White Wage Gap." Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 16, No. 2 (April), pp. 231-60.
7. Chay, Kenneth Y. 1995. "The Impact of Federal Civil Rights Policy on Black Economic Progress: Evidence from the Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972." Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 51, No. 4 (July), pp. 608-32.
8. Fix, Michael, and Raymond Struyk. 1994. Clear and Convincing Evidence. Washington, D.C.: Urban Institute Press.
9. Freeman, Richard, and William M. Rodgers III. 2000. "Area Economic Conditions and the Labor Market Outcomes of Young Men in the 1990s Expansion." In Robert Cherry and William M. Rodgers III, eds., Prosperity for All? The Economic Boom and African Americans. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, pp. 50-87.
10. Holzer, Harry J. 1996. What Employers Want: Job Prospects for Less-Educated Workers. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
11. Holzer, Harry J. 1998a. "Why Do Small Establishments Hire Fewer Blacks Than Larger Ones?" Journal of Human Resources, Vol. 33, No. 4 (Fall), pp. 896-914.
12. Holzer, Harry J. 1998b. "Employer Skill Demands and Labor Market Outcomes of Blacks and Women." Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 52, No. 1 (October), pp. 82-98.
13. Holzer, Harry J. 2000. "Black Applicants, Black Employees, and Urban Labor Market Policy." Journal of Urban Economics, Vol. 48, No. 3 (November), pp. 365-87.
14. Holzer, Harry J., and Keith R. Ihlanfeldt. 1996. "Spatial Factors and the Employment of Blacks at the Firm Level." New England Economic Review, May/ June, pp. 65-86.
15. Holzer, Harry J. 1998. "Customer Discrimination and Employment Outcomes for Minority Workers." Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 113, No. 3 (August), pp. 835-67.
16. Holzer, Harry J., Keith R. Ihlanfeldt, and David L. Sjoquist. 1994. "Work, Search, and Travel among White and Black Youth." Journal of Urban Economics, Vol. 35, No. 3, pp. 320-45.
17. Holzer, Harry J., and David Neumark. 2000. "What Does Affirmative Action Do?" Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 53, No. 2 (January), pp. 240-71.
18. Kling, Jeffrey. 1995. "High Performance Work Practices." Monthly Labor Review, Vol. 118, No. 5 (May), pp. 29-36.
19. Moss, Philip, and Chris Tilly. 1996. "Soft Skills and Race: An Investigation of Black Men's Employment Problems." Working Paper, Russell Sage Foundation.
20. Raphael, Steven. 1998. "The Spatial Mismatch Hypothesis of Black Youth Unemployment: Evidence from the San Francisco Bay Area." Journal of Urban Economics, Vol. 43, No. 1, pp. 79-111.
21. Raphael, Steven, and Michael A. Stoll. 2001. "Can Boosting Minority Car-Ownership Rates Narrow Inter-Racial Employment Gaps?" Brookings/ Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs, Vol. 2, pp. 99-137.
22. Raphael, Steven, Michael A. Stoll, and Harry J. Holzer. 2000. "Are Suburban Firms More Likely to Discriminate against African Americans?" Journal of Urban Economics, Vol. 48, No. 3, pp. 485-508.
23. Stoll, Michael A. 1999. "Spatial Job Search, Spatial Mismatch, and the Employment and Wages of Racial and Ethnic Groups in Los Angeles." Journal of Urban Economics, Vol. 46, No. 1, pp. 129-55.
24. Stoll, Michael A., Harry J. Holzer, and Keith R. Ihlanfeldt. 2000. "Within Cities and Suburbs: Racial Residential Concentration and the Spatial Distribution of Employment Opportunities across Sub-Metropolitan Areas." Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 207-31.
25. Stoll, Michael A., and Steven Raphael. 2000. "Racial Differences in Spatial Job Search Patterns: Exploring the Causes and Consequences." Economic Geography, Vol. 76, No. 3 (July), pp. 201-23.
26. Turner, Susan C. 1997. "Barriers to a Better Break: Employer Discrimination and Spatial Mismatch in Metropolitan Detroit." Journal of Urban Affairs, Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 123-41.