Are black workers missing the connection? The effect of spatial distance and employee referrals on interfirm racial segregation.
I use data on the hiring practices and spatial location of firms in four cities to model the process of interfirm racial segregation. When I control for the spatial location of the firm, the use of employee referrals reduced the probability of hiring a black worker by 75% in firms that are less than 10% black. Among all firms, the results suggest that employee referrals are just as important as the geographic location of the firm in generating employment segregation: both increase the predicted level of interfirm racial segregation among blue-collar workers in the cities studied by about 10%.
Department of Sociology, CB 3210, 155 Hamilton Hall, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210, USA. tedmouw@email.unc.edu
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D001741:Black or African American / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D003625:Data Collection; D003710:Demography; D004651:Employment / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005191:Family Characteristics; D005843:Geography; D006801:Humans; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D015233:Models, Statistical; D010560:Personnel Selection / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011287:Prejudice; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014481:United States; D014505:Urban Population / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*