TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Biddle, Jeff E.
AU  - Hamermesh, Daniel S.
        TI  - Wage Discrimination over the Business Cycle
        PY  - 2012/Mar/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 6445
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp6445
        AB  - Using CPS data from 1979-2009 we examine how cyclical downturns and industry-specific demand shocks affect wage differentials between white non-Hispanic men and women, Hispanics and non-Hispanic whites, and African-Americans and non-Hispanic whites.  Women's relative earnings are harmed by negative shocks; the wage disadvantage of African-Americans drops with negative shocks, which have slight negative effects on Hispanics' relative wages.  Negative shocks also increase the earnings disadvantage of bad-looking workers. A theory of job search suggests two opposite-signed mechanisms that affect these wage differentials.  It suggests greater absolute effects among job-movers, which is verified using the longitudinal component of the CPS.
        KW  - race
KW  - ethnicity
KW  - gender
        ER  -