
Using data from a large U.S. retail firm, we examine how racial matches between managers and their employees affect rates of employee quits, dismissals and promotions. We exploit changes in management at hundreds of stores to estimate hazard models with store fixed effects that control for all unobserved differences across store locations. We find a general pattern of own-race bias across all outcomes in that employees usually have better outcomes when they are the same race as their manager. But we do find anomalies in this pattern, particularly when the manager-employee match violates traditional racial hierarchies (e.g. nonwhites managing whites).
manager-employee relationship, race, discrimination, own-race bias, manager-employee relationship, quits, dismissals, promotions, dismissals, own-race bias, quits, promotions, race, discrimination
manager-employee relationship, race, discrimination, own-race bias, manager-employee relationship, quits, dismissals, promotions, dismissals, own-race bias, quits, promotions, race, discrimination
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