Racial Differences in Access to High-Paying Jobs and the Wage Gap between Black and White Women
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3395992 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Deborah J Anderson (0000-0002-2848-7290, Cornell University), Deborah Anderson (0000-0003-0899-6677), Debra L Shapiro (0000-0001-9523-2848), David Shapiro (0000-0002-0838-3910) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 273-286 |
| Publication date | 1996-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Industrial and Labor Relations Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0019-7939 • E-ISSN: 2162-271X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/001979399604900206 |
| OpenAlex | W2056365706 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 35 |
| References cited | 13 |
The authors examine the role that racial differences in access to high-paying occupations played in determining the racial wage gap in the 1980s. Analyzing data on black and white women aged 34–44 from the National Longitudinal Surveys for 1968–88, they estimate the effects of human capital characteristics and discrimination on segregation into high- and low-wage jobs by race. They find that differences in workers' measured characteristics explain little of either the observed occupational segregation by race or the racial wage gap in 1988. Further analysis suggests that several changes in the wage structure for women during the 1980s, notably a widening of occupational wage differentials and an increase in the returns to education, abetted direct discrimination in enlarging the racial wage gap among women
Business · Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Ethnic group · Human capital · Labour economics · National Longitudinal Surveys · Political science · Race (biology) · Racial differences · Sociology · Wage · White (mutation) · Employment and Welfare Studies · Gender Studies · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 25 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,17 |
| Citation span | 1996 - 2026 (31) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 26 |