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Title: Discrimination in the Restaurant Industry in Ohio

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Publication Year: 2016

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Abstract: This paper explores the size of discrimination in the restaurant industry in Ohio in 1980 and 2010. I used OLS regressions in order to discover the differences in wages between different groups. From there, I used a set of Oaxaca decompositions to determine how much of the difference, if any, could be attributed to discrimination. I found that African American workers made 14.8% less than their white counterparts. Discrimination may be even worse than this wage gap allows: when comparing African American workers to a counterfactual treated with white coefficients, the African American workers make 17.8% less than the white coefficient counterfactual. This effect seems nonexistent when comparing Hispanic and white workers. When comparing men and women, women make significantly less in almost every case.

Url: https://digitalcommons.kent.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1441&context=ugresearch

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Authors: Greathouse, Sophia

Publisher: Kent State University

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Other, Race and Ethnicity

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