By the end of the chapter, the student will be able to do the following:
- Explain the complex factors that enter into the consideration of racial disparities in the labor market.
- Express how racial, ethnic, and gender disparities are part of income and labor market inequalities.
- Understand the purpose and approaches of affirmative action.
- Give examples of groups that have benefited from entrepreneurship and self-employment and groups that have not.
- Define chapter terms such as Gini coefficient, implicit bias, earnings gap, wage gap, skills mismatch hypothesis, and spatial mismatch hypothesis.
- Name and define three types of hiring discrimination.