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dc.contributor.authorBodvarsson, Örn B.en
dc.contributor.authorSessions, John G.en
dc.date.accessioned2012-01-24-
dc.date.accessioned2012-02-07T10:43:05Z-
dc.date.available2012-02-07T10:43:05Z-
dc.date.issued2011-
dc.identifier.piurn:nbn:de:101:1-201110263267en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/55049-
dc.description.abstractThe traditional Becker/Arrow style model of discrimination depicts majority and minority and workers as perfectly substitutable inputs, implying that all workers have the same job assignment. The model is only appropriate for determining whether pay differences between, for example, whites and non-whites doing job assignment A are attributable to prejudice ('within-assignment discrimination'); It is inappropriate, however, for determining whether pay differences between whites in job assignment A and non-whites in job assignment B reflect discriminatory behaviour ('cross-assignment discrimination'). We test the model of such cross assignment discrimination developed by Bodvarsson and Sessions (2011) using data on Major League Baseball hitters and pitchers for four different seasons during the 1990s, a decade during which monopsony power fell. We find strong evidence of ceteris paribus racial pay differences between hitters and pitchers, as well as evidence that cross-assignment discrimination varies with labour market structure.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aInstitute for the Study of Labor (IZA) |cBonnen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aIZA Discussion Papers |x5989en
dc.subject.jelJ7en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordwage discriminationen
dc.subject.keywordcomplementarityen
dc.subject.keywordmonopsony poweren
dc.subject.stwLohndifferenzierungen
dc.subject.stwSchwarzeen
dc.subject.stwBallsporten
dc.subject.stwProfessioneller Sporten
dc.subject.stwMonopsonen
dc.subject.stwUSAen
dc.titleCross-assignment discrimination in pay: A test case of major league baseball-
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn684014327en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

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