Explaining Regional Differences in Black Earnings Discrimination among Full-time Working Men

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ID10430828
AuthorsDon Mar (0000-0003-4308-2854, San Francisco State University, corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume38
Issue3
Pages243-251
Publication date2011-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Review of Black Political Economy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0034-6446 • E-ISSN: 1936-4814
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1007/s12114-011-9102-6
OpenAlexW1985681497
LanguageEN
References cited14

Using data from the 2000 Census 1% PUMS, this paper analyzes the causes of regional differences in Black earnings discrimination. The methodology is a two stage process used to generate and analyze a cross section of earnings discrimination across cities. In the first stage, a city measure of discrimination is constructed using the Oaxaca decomposition method. The second stage then utilizes these estimated measures of discrimination as a dependent variable in OLS models to test various discrimination theories. While the second stage offers some evidence that increases in the size of both the Black labor force and immigrant labor force are positively related to greater discrimination, increasing overall income inequality is found to robustly increase Black earnings discrimination

Census · Demographic economics · Earnings · Econometrics · Economics · Geography · Immigration · Inequality · Instrumental variable · Labour economics · Political science · Population · Race (biology · Racism · Sociology · Demography · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality · Mathematics · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy

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