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Title: Employment Contacts and Minority-White Wage Differences
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1. Korenman, Sanders
Turner, Susan C.
Employment Contacts and Minority-White Wage Differences
Industrial Relations 35,1 (January 1996): 106-122.
Also: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-232X.1996.tb00397.x
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing, Inc. => Wiley Online
Keyword(s): Job Search; Racial Differences; Wages

We study effects of job contacts on wages in inner-city Boston in 1989 and in the 1982 NLSY. Race/Hispanicity differences in wages are not explained by an absence of contacts among minority youths. Rather, in the Boston data, lower wages of black youths are explained by lower "returns" to their contacts. In the NLSY there is little evidence of lower return to black youths' contacts, but there is evidence of lower returns to Hispanic youths' contacts.
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Korenman, Sanders and Susan C. Turner. "Employment Contacts and Minority-White Wage Differences." Industrial Relations 35,1 (January 1996): 106-122.