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Racial discrimination in the U.S. labor market: employment and wage differentials by skill (2017)
Journal Article
Borowczyk-Martins, D., Bradley, J., & Tarasonis, L. (in press). Racial discrimination in the U.S. labor market: employment and wage differentials by skill. Labour Economics, 49, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2017.09.007

In the U.S. the average black worker has a lower employment rate and earns a lower wage compared to his white counterpart. Lang and Lehmann (2012) argue that black-white wage and employment gaps are smaller for high-skill workers. We show that a mode... Read More about Racial discrimination in the U.S. labor market: employment and wage differentials by skill.

Public Sector Wage Policy and Labor Market Equilibrium: A Structural Model (2017)
Journal Article
Bradley, J., Postel-Vinay, F., & Turon, H. (2017). Public Sector Wage Policy and Labor Market Equilibrium: A Structural Model. Journal of the European Economic Association, 15(6), 1214-1257. https://doi.org/10.1093/jeea/jvw026

We develop and estimate a structural model that incorporates a sizable public sector in a labor market with search frictions. The wage distribution and the employment rate in the public sector are taken as exogenous policy parameters. Overall wage di... Read More about Public Sector Wage Policy and Labor Market Equilibrium: A Structural Model.