Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/35668 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 3748
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
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.
Subjects: 
Wages
discrimination
imperfect substitutability
integration
JEL: 
J7
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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