Correlations Between Income and Labor-Force Participation by Race

A major postulate for wage theory in economics is the negative relationship between the level of income in area and the proportion of persons in the labor force. When broken down into racial components for the first time, the association is positive for young white females. The analysis suggests that variation in the evaluation of work can be of sufficient importance to force revision of a theory formed in another social context

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