VIRTUAL EVENT: Discrimination and racial disparities in labour market outcomes: evidence from WWII
In this webinar, Anna Aizer will discuss the role that domestic World War II (WWII) defense production played in reducing the Black-white earnings gap.
VIRTUAL EVENT: Discrimination and racial disparities in labour market outcomes: evidence from WWII
10 Mar 2021, 13:00 – 14:00
The 1940s witnessed substantial reductions in the Black-white earnings gap.
Anna Aizer and her co-authors study the role that domestic WWII defense production played in reducing this gap.
Exploiting variation across labour markets in the allocation of war contracts to private firms, they find that war production contracts resulted in significant increases in the earnings of Black workers and declines in the racial wage gap, with no effect on white workers.
This was achieved via occupational upgrading among Black men to skilled occupations. The gains largely persisted through at least 1970.
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In this weekly Quantitative Social Science (QSS) seminar series, speakers present research that falls under the broad umbrella of quantitative social science.
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Anna Aizer
Professor of Economics and Chair of the Economics Department
Brown University
Anna is a labour and health economist with interests in the area of child health and well-being.
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