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Title: Discrimination and the effects of drug testing on black employment

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2015

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ISSN: 0034-6535

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Abstract: A common assumption is that the rise of drug testing among U.S. employers must have had negative consequences for black employment. I use variation in the timing and nature of drug testing regulation to identify the impacts of testing on black hiring. I find that adoption of protesting legislation increases black employment in the testing sector by 7% to 30% and relative wages by 1.4% to 13.0%, with the largest shifts among low-skilled black men. The results are consistent with ex ante discrimination and suggest that drug testing may benefit African Americans by enabling nonusing blacks to prove their status to employers.

Url: http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/REST_a_00482

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Authors: Wozniak, Abigail

Periodical (Full): MIT Press

Issue: 3

Volume: 97

Pages: 548-565

Data Collections: IPUMS CPS

Topics: Other, Race and Ethnicity

Countries: United States