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Title: The Racial Wage Gap: The Importance of Labor Force Attachment Differences across Black, Mexican and White Men
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1. Antecol, Heather
Bedard, Kelly
The Racial Wage Gap: The Importance of Labor Force Attachment Differences across Black, Mexican and White Men
Journal of Human Resources 39,2 (Spring 2004): 564-583.
Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3559027
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Keyword(s): Black Studies; Ethnic Differences; Hispanic Studies; Hispanics; Labor Force Participation; Minorities; Minority Groups; Racial Differences

Labor market attachment differs significantly across young black, Mexican, and white men. Although it has long been agreed that potential experience is a poor proxy for actual experience for women, many view it as an acceptable approximation for men. Using the NLSY, this paper documents the substantial difference between potential and actual experience for both black and Mexican men. We show that the fraction of the black/white and Mexican/white wage gaps that are explained by differences in potential experience are quite different from the fraction of the racial wage gaps that are explained by actual (real) experience differences.
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Antecol, Heather and Kelly Bedard. "The Racial Wage Gap: The Importance of Labor Force Attachment Differences across Black, Mexican and White Men." Journal of Human Resources 39,2 (Spring 2004): 564-583.