Employee Drug Testing benefits low skilled black males

[offended by everything]

Who benefits from drug testing?

Nearly half of U.S. employers test job applicants and workers for drugs. A common assumption is that the rise of drug testing must have had negative consequences for black employment. However, the rise of employer drug testing may have benefited African-Americans by enabling non-using blacks to prove their status to employers. I use variation in the timing and nature of drug testing regulation to identify the impacts of testing on black hiring. Black employment in the testing sector is suppressed in the absence of testing, a finding which is consistent with ex ante discrimination on the basis of drug use perceptions. Adoption of pro-testing legislation increases black employment in the testing sector by 7-30% and relative wages by 1.4-13.0%, with the largest shifts among low skilled black men. Results further suggest that employers substitute white women for blacks in the absence of testing.

makes perfect sense if you think about it...

[tenacious1]

That might explain why CoolEthan's co-worker has a job.

[TwistedFlax]

That might explain why CoolEthan's co-worker has a job.

:applause:

[MiniDriver]

Mostly, it benefits the companies that run the drug tests.

[Beer Gut]

Fact:  If you're asked to take a drug test, you must be offered a job if you pass.