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Title: Discrimination Theory, Labor Turnover, and Racial Unemployment Differentials
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1. Flanagan, Robert J.
Discrimination Theory, Labor Turnover, and Racial Unemployment Differentials
Journal of Human Resources 13,2 (Spring 1978): 187-207.
Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/145358
Cohort(s): Older Men, Young Men
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Keyword(s): Discrimination; Discrimination, Racial/Ethnic; Quits; Racial Differences; Unemployment; Wages

This paper examines theoretically and empirically the feedback from racial wage differences to unemployment differentials among experienced workers. Although the received theory predicts that the removal of racial wage differentials will increase the relative unemployment of blacks, this conclusion rests on a demand oriented analysis of discrimination which omits the effect of market discrimination on racial differences in quit behavior, movements between market and nonmarket activity, and related unemployment. The empirical work in the paper analyzes turnover flows and the probability of incurring unemployment, conditional on turnover by race. In clarifying the role of racial wage differentials on supply behavior, the results challenge the traditional interpretation of the effect of wage discrimination.
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Flanagan, Robert J. "Discrimination Theory, Labor Turnover, and Racial Unemployment Differentials." Journal of Human Resources 13,2 (Spring 1978): 187-207.