The Effect of Statistical Discrimination on Black–white Wage Inequality: Estimating a Model with Multiple Equilibria∗ By
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This article presents the structural estimation of the parameters of a statistical discrimination model. Although the model is capable of displaying multiple equilibria, an estimation strategy that identifies both the model parameters and the equilibrium selected by the economic agents is developed and empirically implemented. A comparison between the selected equilibria and the other potential equilibria reveals that the decline in wage inequality experienced in the U.S. economy cannot be attributed to changes in the equilibrium selection. Nonetheless, a counterfactual experiment shows that in a color-blind society blacks’ wage would have been on average more than 20% higher.
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تاریخ انتشار 2002