TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Bodvarsson, Örn B.
AU  - Sessions, John G.
        TI  - The Measurement of Racial Discrimination in Pay between Job Categories: Theory and Test
        PY  - 2008/Oct/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 3748
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp3748
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - integration
KW  - imperfect substitutability
KW  - wages
KW  - discrimination
        ER  -