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2024-10-24
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讲座题目:Macroeconomics of Racial Disparities: Discrimination, Labor Market, and Wealth(种族差异的宏观经济学:歧视、劳动力市场和财富)

主 讲 人:杨关忆 科罗拉多学院

讲座时间:2024年10月24日14:30

讲座地点:学院419

讲座内容摘要:

This paper investigates how racial discrimination in hiring impacts employment, wages, and wealth between black and white workers. We develop a labor search-and-matching model that includes both black and white workers and firms with and without racially biased hiring practices. We find that labor market frictions allow discriminatory practices to persist as an equilibrium outcome. These practices contribute significantly to the black-to-white wage and wealth gaps, explaining approximately 52% of the average wage gap and 16% of the median wealth gap. Moreover, discriminatory hiring exacerbates unemployment and wage volatility for black workers, leading to countercyclical racial unemployment gaps and procyclical racial wage disparities. Removing prejudiced firms reduces these disparities and enhances black workers' welfare, though the economic output and welfare for white workers decline slightly due to imperfect substitution by non-prejudiced firms.

这篇论文研究了国外公司招聘中的种族歧视如何影响黑人和白人之间的就业、工资和财富。我们开发了一个包含黑人和白人劳动者以及有和没有种族偏见招聘实践的公司的劳动力搜索和匹配模型。我们发现,劳动力市场摩擦使得歧视性做法能够作为一种均衡结果持续存在。这些做法显著地加剧了黑人和白人之间的工资和财富差距,解释了大约52%的平均工资差距和16%的中位财富差距。此外,歧视性招聘加剧了黑人劳动者的失业和工资波动,导致反周期性的种族失业差距和顺周期性的种族工资差距。消除有偏见的公司可以减少这些差距并提高黑人劳动者的福利,尽管由于非偏见公司的不完全替代,白人劳动者的经济产出和福利略有下降。

主讲人学术简介:

杨关忆,科罗拉多学院经济与商业系的Gerald L. Schlessman助理教授,同时也是全球劳工组织(Global Labor Organization, GLO)的研究员。他在俄亥俄州立大学获得经济学博士学位,研究领域主要集中在宏观经济学和劳动经济学。研究专注于开发以微观数据和理论为基础的异质主体一般均衡模型(Heterogeneous Agent General Equilibrium Models),并利用这些模型分析各类政策相关问题。当前的研究重点包括:一是内生劳动市场摩擦对经济周期的影响,二是财富与收入不平等的相互关系及其宏观影响。