Explaining Post-1964 Earnings Gains by Black Women
Race or Sex
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10429862 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Augustin Kwasi Fosu (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1987 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 41-55 |
| Publication date | 1987-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Review of Black Political Economy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-6446 • E-ISSN: 1936-4814 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1007/bf02903991 |
| OpenAlex | W2076268952 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 3 |
This article examines the earnings position of black females relative to white males for the post-1964 period. It finds that over 70 percent of the 1965–78 growth in black female relative median earnings remains after controlling for previous trends, education, and cyclical and labor supply changes. For full-time, year-round workers, the post-1964 trend independently implies a growth rate about 50 percent higher than that actually observed. Approximately one-half of the gains are attributable to race and the rest to the interaction of race and sex. The study finds no support for the censoring hypothesis that allocates a substantial portion of the growth to labor supply decreases. While it suggests occupational mobility to be nonextraneous in the earnings equation, the author argues that the black female now faces a mobility constraint more formidable than previously
Black female · Black male · Censoring (clinical trials · Constraint (computer-aided design · Demographic economics · Earnings · Econometrics · Economics · Labour economics · Position (finance · Race (biology · Sociology · White (mutation · Gender Studies · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality
| Citations per year | 0.13 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1988 - 1998 (11) |
| Highly cited | No |