"The authors examine the effect of manager ethnicity on the ethnic composition of employment using nine years of personnel records from a regional grocery store chain in the United States. The workforce studied is composed almost entirely of a white majority and large Hispanic minority. Estimating models with store fixed effects, the authors focus on the role of Hispanic ethnicity and examine the effects of manager ethnicity on hiring, transfer, and separation patterns. They compare the effects of manager ethnicity across several types of jobs and find significant effects for hiring patterns but not transfers, and effects for separation patterns in only one atypical case. The authors also find that the effects on hiring occur only in jobs or departments with very few employees."

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