Volume 24, Number 3 (Summer) 1989
Zax, Jeffrey S. 1989. "Quits and Race." Journal of Human Resources 24(3):469-493.
Previous studies estimate that black quit rates are lower than those of whites. This paper suggests that these estimates understate black quit propensities because they neglect racial differences in quit responses to commuting time and local unemployment rates. Ignoring these differences, the black quit effect appears to be negative. Controlling for them, the residual race effect is positive and sufficiently large to account for all net black quits.
The author is a professor of economics at Queens College and the Graduate Center at the City University of New York as well as being affiliated with the National Bureau of Economic Research. He thanks Mehmet Tutuncu for providing invaluable assistance to the research reported here. He also thanks Robert E. Lipsey and John F. Kain for their generosity with suggestions. He claims responsibility for their content.
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