We found a match
Your institution may have rights to this item. Sign in to continue.
- Title
Racial Bias in the Manager-Employee Relationship.
- Authors
Giuliano, Laura; Levine, David I.; Leonard, Jonathan
- Abstract
Using data from a large U.S. retail firm, we examine how racial matches between managers and their employees affect rates of employee quits, dismissals, and promotions. We exploit changes in management at hundreds of stores to estimate hazard models with store fixed effects that control for all unobserved differences across store locations. We find a general pattern of own-race bias in that employees usually have better outcomes when they are the same race as their manager. But we do find anomalies in this pattern, particularly when the manager-employee match violates traditional racial hierarchies (for example, nonwhites managing whites).
- Subjects
RETAIL industry; INDUSTRIAL relations; EMPLOYEES; EMPLOYERS; RACE; RETAIL stores
- Publication
Journal of Human Resources, 2011, Vol 46, Issue 1, p26
- ISSN
0022-166X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3368/jhr.46.1.26