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Race and Post‐Displacement Earnings Among High‐Tech Workers
Author(s) -
ONG PAUL M.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
industrial relations: a journal of economy and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.61
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1468-232X
pISSN - 0019-8676
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-232x.1991.tb00798.x
Subject(s) - earnings , silicon valley , layoff , race (biology) , displaced workers , demographic economics , racial differences , high tech , cohort , labour economics , demography , economics , business , ethnic group , political science , sociology , unemployment , medicine , economic growth , entrepreneurship , finance , gender studies , law
This study examines racial variations in post‐layoff earnings among a cohort of workers displaced in 1985 from Silicon Valley's high‐technology industries. The analysis shows that blacks and Hispanics suffered greater earnings losses than non‐Hispanic whites, and that this racial disparity occurred both among those who found other jobs within the high‐tech sector and among those who were reemployed outside the high‐tech sector. There were no statistical differences in outcomes between Asians and non‐Hispanic whites.