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Title

  • Layoffs, lemons, race, and gender

Summary

  • "This 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"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.

Names

  • Hu, Luojia, 1971-
  • Taber, Christopher
  • National Bureau of Economic Research

Created / Published

  • Cambridge, MA : National Bureau of Economic Research, c2005.

Headings

  • -  African Americans--Employment
  • -  Employees--Dismissal of--Economic aspects--United States
  • -  Plant shutdowns--Economic aspects--United States
  • -  Wages--United States
  • -  Women--Employment--United States

Notes

  • -  Title from PDF file as viewed on 7/14/2005.
  • -  Includes bibliographical references.
  • -  Also available in print.
  • -  Mode of access: World Wide Web.
  • -  System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.

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  • HB1

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  • 2005618417

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Chicago citation style:

Hu, Luojia, Christopher Taber, and National Bureau Of Economic Research. Layoffs, Lemons, Race, and Gender. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, 2005. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2005618417/.

APA citation style:

Hu, L., Taber, C. & National Bureau Of Economic Research. (2005) Layoffs, Lemons, Race, and Gender. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2005618417/.

MLA citation style:

Hu, Luojia, Christopher Taber, and National Bureau Of Economic Research. Layoffs, Lemons, Race, and Gender. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, 2005. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2005618417/>.