期刊名称：Discussion Papers / Ibero America Institute for Economic Research (IAI)
出版年度：2005
卷号：2005
出版社：Ibero America Institute for Economic Research
摘要：Following the topics discussed by Campante et al (2004), this
paper contributes to the literature of the Brazilian racial discrimination by
isolating the effect of intergeneration transmission of schooling and the
school’s quality in the race discrimination effect. Instead of modelling just
one mincer-type equation like others papers, it was decided to use the Two Stage
Least Square Model where the first step of modelling control the endogeneity of
individual schooling instrumenting it by family background and ability tests
while attending school. The paper also provide a comparative profile of urban
racial discrimination in the Northeast and the Southeast recognizing the
important differences across regions in Brazil both in terms of economic
development and racial composition of the population. As found by Campante et al
(2004), results reveal that part of the component of wage differentials
ordinarily attributed to labor market discrimination is actually explained by
persistent educational inequalities between races. However because they didn’t
control the potential bias due to the endogeneity of some variables, their
discrimination effect is 15 to 19 percentage points higher than it should be.
The mechanism of intergeneration transmission is correlated with financial
constraints and higher education of parents because blacks have lower
elasticities of education with respect to parent’s education due to selection
and causation. Even controlling the model using instruments, Private sector
remains as the sector where race discrimination is really an issue. Moreover,
the regional profile suggests that the labor market is a more important locus of
the racial issue in the Southeast than in the Northeast, although the
significant presence in both regions. However, we are not controlling for
selection bias and consequently the results must be viewed with caution because
it is not sure how precise the estimations are.
关键词：Racial discrimination, Intergeneration Mobility, Labour Market, Public Policy,
Regional differences, Education
