Racial disparity in earnings and earnings growth

The case of young men

Bibliographic Data

ID12006402
AuthorsKevin Duncan (0000-0003-4261-9787, Colorado State University Pueblo, corresponding author), Kevin C Duncan (University of Southern Colorado, USA)
Year1994
Volume31
Issue3
Pages237-250
Publication date1994-09-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Social Science Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0362-3319 • E-ISSN: 1873-5355
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1016/0362-3319(94)90021-3
OpenAlexW2072485719
LanguageEN
References cited11

Evidence from the National Longitudinal Survey of Labor Market Experience for Youth indicates a vintage effect (lower black-white earnings ratios for older cohorts relative to younger cohorts), but an examination of longitudinal earnings ratios suggests such an effect can be attributed to intra-cohort deterioration of black earnings over the life cycle rather than to inter-cohort differences in school quality. Regression results indicate that the role of education in influencing continued wage growth on-the-job differs by race. More educated white males hold occupations with steeper experience-earnings profiles. The same can be said of blacks only at a lower level of statistical confidence. This findings implies that either labor market discrimination limits the earnings potential of black human capital or residual differences in school quality persist such that the education received by blacks does not have the same effect over the life cycle as the higher quality education received by whites

Cohort · Cohort effect · Demographic economics · Earnings · Earnings growth · Economics · Educational attainment · Human capital · Labour economics · National Longitudinal Surveys · Sociology · Wage · Wage growth · Demography · Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality · Medicine · Psychology · Retirement, Disability, and Employment

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