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dc.contributor.authorHu, Luojiaen
dc.contributor.authorTaber, Christopheren
dc.date.accessioned2005-11-18-
dc.date.accessioned2010-07-07T09:09:58Z-
dc.date.available2010-07-07T09:09:58Z-
dc.date.issued2005-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/33300-
dc.description.abstractThis paper expands on Gibbons and Katz (1991) by looking at how the difference in wage losses across plant closing and layoff varies with race and gender. We find that the differences between white males and the other groups are striking and complex. The lemons effect of layoff holds for white males as in Gibbons and Katz model, but not for the other three demographic groups (white females, black females, and black males). These three all experience a greater decline in earnings at plant closings than at layoffs. This results from two reinforcing effects. First, plant closings have substantially more negative effects on minorities than on whites. Second, layoffs seem to have more negative consequences for white men than the other groups. We also find that the relative wage losses of blacks following layoffs increased after the Civil Rights Act of 1991 which we take as suggestive of an informational effect of layoff as in Gibbons and Katz. The results are suggestive that the large losses that African Americans experience at plant closing could result from heterogeneity in taste discrimination across firms.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aInstitute for the Study of Labor (IZA) |cBonnen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aIZA Discussion Papers |x1702en
dc.subject.jelJ6en
dc.subject.jelJ7en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordasymmetric informationen
dc.subject.keyworddisplaced workersen
dc.subject.keywordracial and gender wage gapen
dc.subject.keyworddiscriminationen
dc.subject.keywordheterogeneous human capitalen
dc.titleLayoffs, lemons, race and gender-
dc.type|aWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn503074497en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

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