scholarly journals Racial and Ethnic Discrimination in the Labor Market for Child Care Teachers

2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (7) ◽  
pp. 394-406 ◽  
Author(s):  
Casey Boyd-Swan ◽  
Chris M. Herbst
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Ethnic Discrimination ◽  
Ethnic Composition ◽  
Teacher Hiring ◽  
Job Seekers ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Customer Base ◽  
Hiring Process ◽  
Racial And Ethnic Discrimination ◽  
Child Care Regulations

This article examines racial and ethnic discrimination in the child care teacher hiring process. We construct a unique data set that combines a résumé audit study of center-based providers with a follow-up survey of those in the original audit sample. Fictitious résumés were randomly assigned White-, Black-, and Hispanic-sounding names and submitted in response to real teacher job advertisements. The survey was then administered to capture the characteristics of children, teachers, and administrators within the center. These data reveal three key results. First, we find robust evidence of discrimination: Black and Hispanic applicants receive significantly fewer interview requests than observationally equivalent Whites. Second, our results are consistent with a model of customer discrimination: The racial and ethnic composition of the center’s customer base is correlated with the characteristics of job seekers receiving an interview. Finally, we show that states’ child care regulations mitigate the racial and ethnic gap in interview requests.

scholarly journals Teacher Hiring Instruments and Teacher Value Added: Evidence from Peru

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eleonora Bertoni ◽  
Gregory Elacqua ◽  
Carolina Méndez ◽  
Humberto Santos
Keyword(s):  
Classroom Observation ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Teacher Characteristics ◽  
Teacher Hiring ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Primary School Teachers ◽  
Female Teachers ◽  
Hiring Process ◽  
Evaluation Instruments ◽  
Public Primary School

In this article, we explore whether the evaluation instruments used to recruit teachers in the national teacher hiring process in Peru are good predictors of teacher effectiveness. To this end, we estimate teacher value-added (TVA) measures for public primary school teachers in 2018 and test for their correlation with the results of the 2015 and 2017 national evaluations. Our findings indicate that among the three sub-tests that comprise the first, centralized stage of the process, the curricular and pedagogical knowledge component has the strongest (and significant) correlation with the TVA measure, while the weakest correlation is found with the reading comprehension component. At the second, decentralized stage, we find no significant correlation with our measures of TVA for math, as well as non-robust correlations for the professional experience and classroom observation evaluation instruments. A positive and significant correlation is found between the classroom observation component and TVA for reading. Moreover, we find correlations between our measure of TVA and several teacher characteristics: TVA is higher for female teachers and for those at higher salary levels while it is lower for teachers with temporary contracts (compared to those with permanent positions).

Racial and Ethnic Discrimination

2016 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Eleanor K. Seaton ◽  
Tiffany Yip ◽  
Sara Douglass
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Discrimination ◽  
Racial And Ethnic Discrimination

Does Racism Discriminate? Racial and Ethnic Discrimination Among Nigerians and Jamaicans in Houston Texas

2021 ◽  
Vol 52 (8) ◽  
pp. 884-911
Author(s):  
Caralee Jones-Obeng
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Discrimination ◽  
Black Immigrants ◽  
Racial Hierarchy ◽  
Black Immigrant ◽  
Caribbean Population ◽  
Racial And Ethnic Discrimination ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Scholarly Inquiry ◽  
The U.S

As a result of more racially inclusive immigration policies in the U.S., the African and Caribbean population has increased. Thus far, scholarly inquiry on Black immigrants have focused on their incorporation into the racial hierarchy, their experiences with racism, and their relationships with African Americans. While beneficial, these studies overlook the impact of ethnic discrimination for Black immigrants. Although all individuals of African descent share similar racialized experiences in the U.S., I hypothesize that diverse Black immigrant groups endure unique discriminatory experiences because of their ethnic identities. Thus, through in-depth interviews with 27 Nigerian and 20 Jamaican respondents, this paper explores Black immigrants’ experiences with racial and ethnic discrimination. I found that, regardless of ethnic background, 80% of my Nigerian and Jamaican respondents encountered racism. In contrast, ethnic discrimination varied between my Nigerian and Jamaican respondents. My Nigerian respondents were more likely to report their encounters with ethnic discrimination. These experiences ranged from being accused of internet scamming to being mocked for having an accent. On the other hand, not only were my Jamaican respondents less likely to report ethnic discrimination, but they were also more likely to see their ethnicity as an advantage.

Fighting Poverty in the United States

2020 ◽  
pp. 73-103
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Ethnic Discrimination ◽  
Immigration Status ◽  
United State ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Poverty Measures ◽  
Values And Beliefs ◽  
Racial And Ethnic Discrimination ◽  
Contemporary United States

A major thread that runs through the fight against poverty in the United States is its connection between the history, values, and beliefs and interventions designed to combat poverty. Certain factors determine the characteristics of poverty in the United State of America: racial and ethnic discrimination, age, gender, residence, employment, inter-generational mobility, and immigration status. This chapter, therefore, seeks to examine the historical implications to poverty, the values and beliefs about poverty and the poor, legislative interventions, conceptual clarifications and poverty measures, realities of poverty in the contemporary United States, and potential policy solutions.

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