Manager Race and the Race of New Hires

Laura Giuliano, David Levine and Jonathan Leonard ()

No 722, Working Papers from University of Miami, Department of Economics

Abstract: Using personnel data from a large U.S. retail firm, we examine whether the race of the hiring manager affects the racial composition of new hires. We exploit manager changes at hundreds of stores to estimate models with store fixed effects. We find significant effects of manager race and ethnicity. First, all non-black managers—i.e., whites, Hispanics, and Asians—hire more whites and fewer blacks than do black managers. The differences between non-black and black managers are especially large in the South. Second, in locations with large Hispanic populations, Hispanic managers hire more Hispanics and fewer whites than white managers.

Keywords: race; ethnicity; racial discrimination; hiring (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J15 J29 J59 J7 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 47 pages
Date: 2006-09
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Forthcoming: Under Review, Journal of Labor Economics

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