Are Black Workers Missing the Connection? The Effect of Spatial Distance and Employee Referrals on Interfirm Racial Segregation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10967973 |
|---|---|
| Authors | T Mouw (0000-0002-6657-1565, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 507 |
| Publication date | 2002-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Demography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0070-3370 • E-ISSN: 1533-7790 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3088329 |
| OpenAlex | W4235958280 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 27 |
I use data on the hiring practices and spatial location of firms in four cities to model the process of interfirm racial segregation. When I control for the spatial location of the firm, the use of employee referrals reduced the probability of hiring a black worker by 75% in firms that are less than 10% black. Among all firms, the results suggest that employee referrals are just as important as the geographic location of the firm in generating employment segregation: both increase the predicted level of interfirm racial segregation among blue-collar workers in the cities studied by about 10
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The Truly Disadvantaged
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The Rise and Decline of the American Ghetto
Job Relocation and the Racial Gap in Unemployment in Detroit and Chicago, 1980 to 1990
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Racial Segregation among Places of Employment
Missing the Connection
Soft' Skills and Race
Chocolate city, vanilla suburbs
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,06 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2009 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |