Taste-Based Discrimination

Read the table below and choose the correct statement(s).

• The last hired employee is more likely to be black if there are more black customers.
• The last hired employee is more likely to be black if there are more hispanic customers.
• he association between the last employee's ethnicity and customer's composition is stronger when there is more customer contact in the working environment.
• The association between the last employee's ethnicity and customer's composition is the strongest in blue collar work.

TABLE II MINORITIES AMONG LAST WORKER HIRED: MEANS (STANDARD ERRORS) Blacks Hispanics Black customers: Hispanic customers: All All jobs .00-.24 25-.49 .50-1.00 Diff. jobs .00-.24 .25-49 .50-1.00 Diff. All jobs .176 .099 .253 .561 .462 .150 .094 .340 .566 .472 (.070) By customer contact: (.118) Without .170 .122 .272 .466 .344 .183 .146 .472 .500 .354 (.079) With (.119) .179 .090 .247 .580 .490 139 .075 .313 .576 .501 (.029) Difference (.051) -.009 -.032 -.025 .114 .146 -.044 -.071 -.159 .076 .147 (.019) (.019) (.052) (.082) (.084) (.019) (.019) By occupation: (.081) (.128) (.129) Professional/managerial .117 069 .180 .441 .372 .094 .056 226 .299 Clerical 243 .178 .102 .265 .537 435 .148 .088 .285 Sales .709 .621 .183 .041 .223 .598 .557 .103 .035 .320 Service .724 .689 .306 .173 .407 .753 .580 .153 .103 .369 Blue-collar .559 .456 .164 .128 .234 .450 .322 .261 .192 .635 653 Difference relative to Blue-collar: .461 Prof/mgt. -.047 -.059 -.054 -.009 .050 -.167 -.136 -.409 -.354 -.218 (.025) (.024) (.069) (.103) (.106) (.026) (.025) Clerical (.097) (.141) (.143) .014 -.026 .031 .087 .113 -.113 -.104 -.350 .056 .160 (.025) (.024) (.065) (.099) (.102) (.026) (.025) (.087) Sales (.125) (.127) .019 -.087 -.011 .148 .235 -.158 -.157 -.315 .071 228 (.029 (.025) (.072) (.098) (.102) (.027) (.024) (.112) Service (.139) (.141) .142 .045 .173 .303 .258 -.108 -.089 .266 -.094 -.005 (.032) (.034) (.077) (.093) (.098) (.029 (.028) (.115) (.157) (.159) All means are sample-weighted. Standard errors appear in parentheses under estimates of "differences" in sample means. Differences across customer racial categories (in the fifth 2001 for Hispanics. and tenth columns) reflect differences between categories with the highest (.50-1.00) and lowest (.00-.24) percentages of customers from each group. Sample sizes are 2036 for blacks and