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Title: Contributions of Skills to the Racial Wage Gap
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Petre, Melinda |
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Contributions of Skills to the Racial Wage Gap Journal of Human Capital 13,3 (Fall 2019): 479-518. Also: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/704322 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Keyword(s): Cognitive Ability; Ethnic Differences; Male Sample; Noncognitive Skills; Racial Differences; Skills; Wage Differentials; Wage Gap Analyzing the distributions of wages, cognitive, and noncognitive skills for white, black, and Hispanic men reveals differences throughout these distributions. I use data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 and unconditional quantile Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions to decompose observed wage gaps throughout the distribution into portions explained by cognitive and noncognitive skills. Noncognitive skills explain 2-4 percent of the wage gap between blacks and whites and 9-25 percent of the wage gap throughout the distribution between Hispanics and whites, whereas cognitive skills explain 8-70 and 24-90 percent, respectively. Between blacks and Hispanics, noncognitive skills explain 5-10 percent and cognitive skills 9-24 percent. |
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Petre, Melinda. "Contributions of Skills to the Racial Wage Gap." Journal of Human Capital 13,3 (Fall 2019): 479-518.
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