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Title: Shifting Challenges: Fifty Years of Economic Change Toward Black-White Earnings Equality
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Ferguson, Ronald F. |
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Shifting Challenges: Fifty Years of Economic Change Toward Black-White Earnings Equality In: An American Dilemma Revisited: Race Relations in a Changing World. C. Obie, Jr., ed. New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation, 1996: pp. 76-111 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation Keyword(s): Affirmative Action; Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB); Education; Employment; Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO); Illegal Activities; Migration; Migration Patterns; Racial Differences; Regions; Schooling; Skills; Unions; Wage Differentials; Wage Gap; Wages Argues that wage & employment differentials between whites & blacks are explained by the fact that basic skills of young black workers are not, on average, as well matched to shifting patterns in the market demand for labor as are their white counterparts, controlling for schooling levels and regional differences. A review of black employment 1940-1975 suggests that progress made by blacks in those years was due to black migration away from southern states, improvements in quality of education, and the dismantling of overt discrimination in the labor market. However, it is observed that such progress has been stifled since 1975 due to skills-based market changes to which whites have reacted better than blacks. Data from the 1980 Armed Forces Qualifications Test component of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth are consulted to demonstrate that disparities in reading & math skills account for much of the wage differential between whites and blacks. However, it is also noted that the skill differential between whites and blacks has been declining, which suggests that either the value of skill rose faster than the gap closed, or blacks were earning more than whites with similar skills in the pre-1975 period. 2 Tables, 8 Figures. D. M. Smith (Copyright 1996, Sociological Abstracts, Inc., all rights reserved.) |
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Ferguson, Ronald F. "Shifting Challenges: Fifty Years of Economic Change Toward Black-White Earnings Equality" In: An American Dilemma Revisited: Race Relations in a Changing World. C. Obie, Jr., ed. New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation, 1996: pp. 76-111
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