%0 Report
        %A Akee, Randall K. Q.
%A Yuksel, Mutlu
        %T Skin Tone's Decreasing Importance on Employment: Evidence from a Longitudinal Dataset, 1985-2000
        %D 2010
        %8 2010 Aug
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 5120
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp5120
        %X We investigate the effect of skin tone on employment probabilities in a longitudinal data set. Using an objective measure of skin tone from a light-spectrometer and a self-reported measure of race we find that over time the effect of skin tone on employment has diminished. These results hold both across the white and African-American samples as well as within the African-American sample itself with regard to skin tone. Further investigation indicates that all of the gains can be attributed to African-American women; there are no changes in the employment probabilities for African-American men in the 15 year panel data. We find that the expansion of employment for women is concentrated in the services occupations.
        %K employment discrimination
%K skin tone
%K race
%K gender
%K panel data