%0 Report
        %A Bodvarsson, Örn B.
%A Sessions, John G.
        %T The Measurement of Racial Discrimination in Pay between Job Categories: Theory and Test
        %D 2008
        %8 2008 Oct
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 3748
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp3748
        %X The traditional model of taste discrimination in labor markets presumes perfect substitution, making it unsuitable for the measurement of discrimination across job assignments. We extend the model to explain cross-assignment discrimination and test it on data from Major League Baseball. A competitive firm with a Generalized Leontief production function fills each job assignment with whites and nonwhites in an environment of customer prejudice. According to the model, cross-assignment discrimination depends upon racial productivity differences, the productivity x prejudice interaction, technology, relative labor supply and racial integration. We find strong evidence of ceteris paribus racial salary differences between hitters and pitchers.
        %K integration
%K imperfect substitutability
%K wages
%K discrimination