Market Structure and Racial and Gender Discrimination

Evidence from the Telecommunication Industry

Bibliographic Data

ID2772239
AuthorsJames Peoples (0000-0002-9242-0699, University of Minnesota System), Rhoda Robinson (University of Minnesota System)
Year1996
Volume55
Issue3
Pages309-325
Publication date1996-07-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Journal of Economics and Sociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-9246 • E-ISSN: 1536-7150
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1536-7150.1996.tb02313.x
OpenAlexW1481852640
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited4

The Annual Equal Employment Opportunity Reports and Current Population Survey files are used to examine employment and earnings by race and gender in the telecommunications industry following changes in the industry's affirmative action guidelines and following the divestiture of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Nonblack minority men were the only underrepresented group to experience marked employment gains as managers and professional. The relative employment probability of other underrepresented workers remained similar to the levels experienced during the implementation of affirmative action guidelines. Earnings differentials did decline for minority men and white women in the telecommunications industry. However, this finding is only unique to black men as the earnings pattern for white women and nonblack minority men mirror that found for these groups nationally

Affirmative action · Black women · Business · Current Population Survey · Demographic economics · Divestment · Earnings · Economics · Labour economics · Political science · Population · Race (biology) · Sociology · Telephone survey · White (mutation) · Accounting · Demography · Gender Studies · ICT Impact and Policies · Law · Marketing · Merger and Competition Analysis · Psychology · Transport and Economic Policies

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