Why Do Minority Men Earn Less: a Study of Wage Differentials among the Highly Educated

• Autores: Dan Black, Amelia Haviland, Seth Sanders, Lowell Taylor
• Localización: The Review of economics and statistics, ISSN 0034-6535, Vol. 88, Nº 2, 2006, págs. 300-313
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.1162/rest.88.2.300
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• Resumen

  • We estimate wage gaps using nonparametric matching methods and detailed measures of field of study for university graduates. We find a modest portion of the wage gap is the consequence of measurement error in the Census education measure. For Hispanic and Asian men, the remaining gap is attributable to premarket factors-primarily differences in formal education and English language proficiency. For black men, only about one-quarter of the wage gap is explained by these same factors. For a subsample of black men born outside the South to parents with some college education, these factors do account for the entire wage gap.