Huh. May be a benefit to drug testing at work...

[Slyph]

But it's not what you'd think.

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.

Wait, who are these people who assume that drug testing would have negative impact on black employment?

Well, if a person doesn't grasp the full extent of profiling, a person might be forgiven (even though that person is still a racist) for assuming that given the disproportionate amount of arrests and convictions...

Yeah, going to just trail off there.

[LMNO]

Unfortunately, the article doesn't say.  But I just found it interesting that when testing is implepented, there's a possible correlation to hiring more african american people.

[xXRon_Paul_42016Xxx(weed)]

But it's not what you'd think.

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.

Wait, who are these people who assume that drug testing would have negative impact on black employment?

Well, if a person doesn't grasp the full extent of profiling, a person might be forgiven (even though that person is still a racist) for assuming that given the disproportionate amount of arrests and convictions...

Yeah, going to just trail off there.

You see thats the thing. Profiling of one kind or another will probably always be a problem in the hiring process. Especially with things like unskilled labor where demand for jobs is huge. You have a glut of applicants that are all more or less the same qualifications wise and if you hire someone who fucks up its going to be on your head. What else can you do but fall back on personal biases? And really, in their situation what would you do differently? You might have a different set of biases, but the end result is still going to be a lot of qualified people turned down for mostly arbitrary reasons. (Prophecy: Big Data will use music tastes in the future to help choose employees) The drug test is effective because its an objective metric that the person hiring can hide behind if things go bad. "The drug test/Degree/aptitude test said he was ok so it wasnt my fault."