Evidence of discrimination by preference in Brazil

This paper tests Becker’s model of preference discrimination. Using Brazilian data, we reject the hypothesis that the black-white conditional wage gap is determined by the average degree of employers’ prejudice. Instead, we show that the racial wage gap is related to the degree of prejudice of the m...

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Main Author: Guilherme Hirata
Format: Article
Language:Portuguese
Published: Universidade de São Paulo 2017-04-01
Series:Economia Aplicada
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Online Access:http://www.revistas.usp.br/ecoa/article/view/135133