Blacks recovering more slowly from recession September 29, 2013 Doug Moore It’s common in recession that blacks are hurt more, said Howard Wall, director of the Center for Economics and the Environment at Lindenwood University. When you have a weak recovery like this, it’s always the people […]
Daily Archives: April 26, 2015
The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business Racial Bias in Hiring Research by Marianne Bertrand The authors find that applicants with white sounding names are 50 percent more likely to get called for an initial interview than applicants with African-American-sounding names. In addition, race greatly affects how […]
The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business Racial ...
Last Hired, First Fired? Black- White Unemployment and the Business Cycle Kenneth A. Couch & Robert Fairlie February 2010 “When the economy weakens, the unemployment rate of blacks-always higher than that of whites- rises by larger number of percentage points and results in a larger relative decline in employment” (Freeman […]