Market Power and Employment Discrimination

Haessel, Walter; Palmer, John L.

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“…Empirical evidence at the industry level supports the theory. Haessel and Palmer (1978) found that firms in more highly concentrated industries discriminate more, and Comanor (1973) found that discrimination is positively correlated with monopoly power. Medoff (1980) determined that the number of employees in a firm had a significantly posi- tive effect-and market power a significantly negative effect-on the employment of Black men.…”

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confidence: 99%

Racial and Ethnic Employment Discrimination

Bellemore¹

2001

Journal of Sports Economics

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Employment discrimination is studied by examining the performance of baseball players at the highest minor league level in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1990s. Both Blacks and Hispanics face discrimination in promotion to the major leagues. Blacks faced it in the 1960s and 1970s and still did in the 1990s, but it subsided in years when jobs were created through expansion in the number of teams. Hispanics faced discrimination in the 1960s and 1970s that abated in years of expansion, but there is no significant evidence that they did in the 1990s.

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Racial and Ethnic Employment Discrimination

Bellemore¹

2001

Journal of Sports Economics

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“…Extensive research has tested the relationship between product market competition and employment discrimination with mixed results. Studies by Comanor [1973], Haessel and Palmer [1978], Luksetich [1979], and Ashenfelter and Hannan [1986] fmd evidence of an indirect relationship between competition and discrimination, while others fred no supporting evidence [Shepherd and Levin, 1973;Oster, 1975].…”

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The impact of deregulation on employment discrimination in the trucking industry

Agesa

1998

Atlantic Economic Journal

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“…Researchers measure the effect of market concentration on the racial composition of a cross-section of workers from many industries (Comanor, 1973;Haessel and Palmer, 1978;Shepherd and Levin, 1973). Or, researchers measure the effect of deregulation on racial hiring in an industry through a case-study approach (Agesa, 1998;Heywood and Peoples, 1994).…”

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Deregulation and the Racial Composition of Airlines

Agesa

2001

J Policy Anal Manage

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Economic theory suggests that the enhanced product market competition of deregulation reduces employers' ability to discriminate when hiring. Recent studies of the effect of deregulation on racial employment in the naturally competitive trucking industry find that deregulation increased minority employment. This study examines the effect of deregulation on racial employment in the airline industry. Because deregulation transformed airlines from wasteful service competition to rigorous price competition, deregulation's effect on racial hiring in this continuously competitive industry is not apparent. This study finds that deregulation only modestly changed the racial composition of major airline occupations, which suggests that the change in market structure as a result of deregulation may largely determine the effect of regulatory reform on the racial composition of an industry. © 2001 by the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management.

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Market Power and Employment Discrimination

Cited by 18 publications

References 5 publications

Racial and Ethnic Employment Discrimination

Racial and Ethnic Employment Discrimination

The impact of deregulation on employment discrimination in the trucking industry

Deregulation and the Racial Composition of Airlines

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