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Yes, but only for African-American women:
We investigate the effect of skin tone on employment probabilities in a longitudinal data set. Using an objective measure of skin tone from a light-spectrometer and a self-reported measure of race we find that over time the effect of skin tone on employment has diminished. These results hold both across the white and African-American samples as well as within the African-American sample itself with regard to skin tone. Further investigation indicates that all of the gains can be attributed to African-American women; there are no changes in the employment probabilities for African-American men in the 15 year panel data. We find that the expansion of employment for women is concentrated in the services occupations.
Source: “Skin Tone’s Decreasing Importance on Employment: Evidence from a Longitudinal Dataset, 1985-2000” from IZA Discussion Paper No. 5120, August 2010
Interestingly, race doesn’t affect teamwork on the court in the NBA but it does influence MLB umpires.
I did a deeper dive on the subject of discrimination here.
I’m curious to read this book: Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession. It’s by Studs Terkel, author of the classic, Working.
Are minority kids really penalized by peers for “acting white”?
Does racism affect teamwork in the NBA?
Does fertility make women more racist?
Does the shade of an African-American woman’s skin have an important effect on her life?
Are anti-Semites more or less accurate at telling if someone is Jewish?
Does stereotyping increase with age?
Does race affect who gets voted off AMERICAN IDOL?
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