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Title: Black-White Wage Differences among Young Women, 1977-86
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1. McCrate, Elaine
Leete, Laura
Black-White Wage Differences among Young Women, 1977-86
Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society 33,2 (April 1994): 168-183.
Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-232X.1994.tb00334.x/abstract
Cohort(s): NLSY79, Young Women
Publisher: Institute of Industrial Relations, University of California, Berkeley
Keyword(s): Economics of Discrimination; Economics of Gender; Economics of Minorities; Educational Returns; Labor Market Demographics; Racial Differences; Rehabilitation; Wage Differentials; Wage Dynamics; Wage Gap

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Data from the 1977 National Longitudinal Survey of Young Women and the 1986 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth were used to explore reasons for the rise in the pay gap between black and white women in their twenties. Until 1977 wage disparities between black and white women had been declining, but between 1977 and 1986, the racial wage gap among young women increased by .074 log points. Demographic developments cannot explain the relative wage trend. Rather, black women appear to have lost ground because: their level of experience has declined relative to white women, despite the fact that their mean rate of pay rose substantially; and their rate of educational return has declined relative to the white rate, despite the fact that their mean level of education rose substantially. Changes in the relative level of work experience and in the rate of return to schooling were highlighted.
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McCrate, Elaine and Laura Leete. "Black-White Wage Differences among Young Women, 1977-86." Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society 33,2 (April 1994): 168-183.