Racial Peer Effects at Work : Evidence from Worker Deaths in Brazil (anglais)

This paper studies the impact of working with same-race coworkers on individuals’ retention at firms. Using administrative employer-employee data from Brazil, the paper exploits unexpected deaths of workers from different racial groups as exogenous shocks to peer group composition. The findings show that a decrease in the non-white share of coworkers reduces the retention of non-white workers but does not affect the retention of white workers. The...
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  • Katharina Maria Fietz;
    Schmeißer,Aiko;

  • 2024/09/05

  • Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques

  • WPS10899

  • 1

  • Brésil,

  • Amérique latine et Caraïbes,

  • 2024/09/05

  • Disclosed

  • Racial Peer Effects at Work : Evidence from Worker Deaths in Brazil

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