abstract: 'White teenagers are substantially more likely to search for employment

  than black teenagers. This differential occurs despite the fact that,

  conditional on race, individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds are more

  likely to search. While the racial wage gap is small, the unemployment

  rate for black teenagers is substantially higher than that of white

  teenagers. We develop a two-sided search model where firms are partially

  able to search on demographics. Model estimates reveal that firms are

  more able to target their search on race than on age. Employment and

  wage outcome differences explain half of the racial gap in labor force

  participation rates. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.'
affiliation: 'Arcidiacono, P (Corresponding Author), Duke Univ, Dept Econ, Box 90097,
  Durham, NC 27708 USA.

  Arcidiacono, Peter, Duke Univ, Dept Econ, Durham, NC 27708 USA.

  Ahn, Tom, Univ Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 USA.

  Murphy, Alvin, Washington Univ, Olin Business Sch, St Louis, MO 63130 USA.

  Swinton, Omari, Howard Univ, Washington, DC USA.'
author: Ahn, Tom and Arcidiacono, Peter and Murphy, Alvin and Swinton, Omari
author-email: Psarcidi@econ.duke.edu
author_list:
- family: Ahn
  given: Tom
- family: Arcidiacono
  given: Peter
- family: Murphy
  given: Alvin
- family: Swinton
  given: Omari
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1016/j.jeconom.2009.09.017
eissn: 1872-6895
files: []
issn: 0304-4076
journal: JOURNAL OF ECONOMETRICS
keywords: Search; Racial employment gap; Racial wage gap
keywords-plus: MINIMUM-WAGE; SEARCH; DISCRIMINATION; EMPLOYMENT; JOB
language: English
month: MAY
number: '1'
number-of-cited-references: '18'
orcid-numbers: Ahn, Tom/0000-0002-0185-6471
pages: 201-211
papis_id: 9617c4df3cc87a5c806d9ac8a4ba1ef7
ref: Ahn2010explainingcrossracia
times-cited: '4'
title: 'Explaining cross-racial differences in teenage labor force participation:
  Results from a two-sided matching model'
type: Article
unique-id: WOS:000277219000014
usage-count-last-180-days: '2'
usage-count-since-2013: '24'
volume: '156'
web-of-science-categories: 'Economics; Mathematics, Interdisciplinary Applications;
  Social Sciences,

  Mathematical Methods'
year: '2010'