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Title: Experience, Tenure, and Wage Growth of Young Black and White Men
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1. Bratsberg, Bernt
Terrell, Dek
Experience, Tenure, and Wage Growth of Young Black and White Men
Journal of Human Resources 33,3 (Summer 1998): 658-682.
Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/146337
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Keyword(s): High School Completion/Graduates; Job Tenure; Racial Differences; Wage Growth; Work Experience

This paper studies the source of differences in wage growth between young black and white workers. Focusing on "terminal" high school graduates from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we estimate the returns to on-the-job tenure and general labor market experience using ordinary least squares, Altonji and Shakotko, and Topel estimators. Results from all three estimators indicate that for black workers returns to general experience trail those for white workers, but that black workers earn equal if not higher returns to tenure than do white workers.
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Bratsberg, Bernt and Dek Terrell. "Experience, Tenure, and Wage Growth of Young Black and White Men." Journal of Human Resources 33,3 (Summer 1998): 658-682.