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Author: Zhang, Junsen
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Fan, C. Simon Wei, Xiangdong Zhang, Junsen |
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Soft Skills, Hard Skills, and the Black/White Wage Gap Economic Inquiry 55,2 (April 2017): 1032-1053. Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ecin.12406/abstract Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Wiley Online Keyword(s): Current Population Survey (CPS) / CPS-Fertility Supplement; Noncognitive Skills; Occupational Information Network (O*NET); Occupations; Racial Differences; Skills; Wage Gap Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This study examines the relative importance of soft skills versus hard skills across occupations and its impact on the observed wage gap between Blacks and Whites in the United States. It posits that the Black/White pay gap may vary across occupations that require the use of different types of skills. We classify occupations into hard-skill intensive versus soft-skill intensive jobs using the skill content measures of different occupations from the Occupational Information Network (O*Net). We then use data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) and Current Population Survey (CPS) to investigate the impact of job skill type on the wage gap. Consistent with our theoretical predictions, we show that this wage gap in white-collar jobs is smaller for hard-skills jobs than it is for soft-skills jobs. Moreover, we demonstrate that, in response to variations in the wage gap across different occupations, Blacks are more likely to self-select themselves into hard-skills jobs, ceteris paribus. This shows not only that discrimination against Blacks varies across occupations, but also that such discrimination induces the self-selection of Blacks into certain occupations. Moreover, this finding highlights the role played by co-worker/customer discrimination in explaining the racial wage gap in the U.S. labor market. |
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Fan, C. Simon, Xiangdong Wei and Junsen Zhang. "Soft Skills, Hard Skills, and the Black/White Wage Gap." Economic Inquiry 55,2 (April 2017): 1032-1053.
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Lehr, Carol Scotese Zhang, Junsen |
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Fertility and Education Premiums Journal of Population Economics 16,3 (August 2003): 555-578. Also: http://www.springerlink.com/content/be0dhe7c1x5dfv01/ Cohort(s): Mature Women, Young Women Publisher: Springer Keyword(s): Education; Family Size; Fertility Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This study examines households' fertility variations in response to expected permanent shifts in the return to education. Wage premiums measure the return to education because their long-run movements are driven by factors exogenous to the fertility process. The results indicate that high education parents' fertility responds negatively to changes in the expected return to college and negatively to changes in the expected return to high school. On the other hand, the fertility of low education parents does not vary with changes to expected returns to education. These results can be consistently interpreted within a standard quality/quantity model of endogenous fertility. |
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Bibliography Citation
Lehr, Carol Scotese and Junsen Zhang. "Fertility and Education Premiums." Journal of Population Economics 16,3 (August 2003): 555-578.
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