DDRIE: Economic Consequences of Discrimination Against Minority Bosses by Subordinates

本博士论文研究项目将使用实验方法来研究对领导职位代表性不足的少数民族管理人员歧视的原因和后果。 首先，歧视，特别是针对少数民族经理，种族和文化障碍，使生产力的人，或降低他们的有效性，劳动力市场。除了人力成本外，这种人才的错误分配会减缓经济增长，从而使国家无法发挥其潜力，改善公民的福利，为代表性不足的群体扩大机会，并阻止在低收入地区发展创业人才，因为在这些地区，向上流动可能依赖创业精神。 这项研究的重点是一种具体的歧视：雇员对少数群体雇主和主管的歧视。 这将是为数不多的采用创新方法研究自下而上的歧视的研究之一。 本研究的结果将有助于了解来自下属工人的歧视在多大程度上阻碍了少数群体的向上流动。该项目旨在回答三个主要问题：（一）少数群体雇主和主管在劳动力市场是否面临来自下层的歧视？(ii)背后的动机是什么？以及（iii）这种自下而上的歧视会产生什么样的经济后果？这项研究将使用两个实地实验来测试自下而上的歧视的存在，并研究其对劳动力市场上的少数民族的经济后果。这项研究对歧视经济学方面不断增长的实证文献作出了一些贡献。这是第一个在真实的世界场环境中提供自下而上歧视的实验证据的研究。第二，与大多数关于劳动力市场歧视的实地实验不同，实验设计允许从下面分析歧视的潜在动机。 研究结果对减少劳动力市场歧视、提高劳动力市场效率、提高经济效益具有重要的政策意义。 除了经济增长，该研究项目的成果有可能为减少不平等的政策提供投入，并为代表性不足的群体扩大创业和管理机会。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This doctoral dissertation research project will use experimental methods to study the causes and consequences of discrimination against minority managers who are underrepresented in leadership positions. Prejudice, discrimination especially aimed at minority manger, and racial and cultural barriers keep productive people out of, or decrease their effectiveness in, the labor market. Besides human costs, this mis-allocation of talent can slow economic growth, thus preventing countries from achieving their potential to improve the welfare of citizens as well as broaden opportunities for under-represented groups and prevent the development of entrepreneurial talent in low income areas where upward mobility may depend on entrepreneurship. The focus of this study is on a specific type of discrimination: employees’ discrimination against minority employers and supervisors. This will be one of the few studies that uses an innovative approach to study discrimination from below. The findings of this study will be helpful in understanding the extent to which discrimination from subordinate workers thwart the upward mobility of minority groups. It will inform on policies to reduce discrimination in the workplace and provide equal opportunity for all.This project aims to answer three main questions: (i) Do minority employers and supervisors face discrimination from below in labor markets? (ii) What are the underlying motivations?; and (iii) What are the economic consequences of such discrimination from below? This research will use two field experiments to test for the presence of bottom-up discrimination, and study its economic consequences for minorities in the labor market. This research makes some contributions to the growing empirical literature on the economics of discrimination. This is the first study to provide experimental evidence on discrimination from below in real world field setting. Second, unlike most field experiments on discrimination in labor markets, the experimental design allows for an analysis of the underlying motivations for discrimination from below. The results of this research has important policy implications to decrease labor market discrimination and improve the efficiency of labor markets and thus increase economic outcomes. In addition to economic growth, the results of this research project has the potential to provide inputs into policies to decrease inequality as well as expand entrepreneurial and managerial opportunities for under-represented groups.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.