The Evolution of Black-White Wage Inequality across Occupational Sectors in the US since the 1990s

This paper updates the current knowledge about Black-White wage inequality in the US male labor market by using the NLSY97 sample. Compared with the results obtained from the NLSY79 cohort, I find that the unconditional racial wage inequality is smaller today, but after controlling for premarket aca...

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Main Author: Ye, Tianxiao
Format: Others
Published: Scholarship @ Claremont 2015
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Online Access:http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1176
http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2151&context=cmc_theses