Are black workers missing the connection? The effect of spatial distance and employee referrals on interfirm racial segregation | Zendy

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Are black workers missing the connection? The effect of spatial distance and employee referrals on interfirm racial segregation

Author(s) -

Ted Mouw

Publication year - 2002

Publication title -

demography

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.099

H-Index - 129

eISSN - 1533-7790

pISSN - 0070-3370

DOI - 10.1353/dem.2002.0030

Subject(s) - connection (principal bundle) , demographic economics , business , geography , demography , socioeconomics , sociology , economics , engineering , structural engineering

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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