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Title: Racial Wage Differentials Among Young Adults: Evidence from the 1990s
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Abdel-Ghany, Mohamed Sharpe, Deanna L. |
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Racial Wage Differentials Among Young Adults: Evidence from the 1990s Journal of Family and Economic Issues 15,3 (September 1994): 279-294. Also: http://www.springerlink.com/content/379978974712q620/ Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Plenum Publishing Corporation Keyword(s): Discrimination; Ethnic Groups/Ethnicity; Human Capital; Income Dynamics/Shocks; Labor Market Segmentation; Racial Differences; Racial Studies; Sex Roles; Wage Differentials; Wage Equations Using 1991 data drawn from the National Longitudinal Surveys of Labor Market Experience, wage differentials between black and white male young adults (N = 930 and 1,825, respectively) are decomposed into those related to labor market discrimination and those resulting from human capital endowments. The importance of testing for significant differences in wage equations before conducting decomposition analysis is emphasized. Results demonstrate that ignoring correction for the sample selection bias resulting from black-white differences in the probability of being employed would lead to an underestimation of the size of wage differentials. Findings also show that the results of models based on different assumptions regarding the nondiscriminatory wage structure might lead to different conclusions pertinent to the extent of labor market discrimination. Implications for public policy development are discussed. (Copyright 1995, Sociological Abstracts, Inc., all rights reserved.) |
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Abdel-Ghany, Mohamed and Deanna L. Sharpe. "Racial Wage Differentials Among Young Adults: Evidence from the 1990s." Journal of Family and Economic Issues 15,3 (September 1994): 279-294.
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