Why Do Minority Men Earn Less? A Study of Wage Differentials among the Highly Educated

By D. Black, Amelia Haviland, Seth Sanders, Lowell J. Taylor. Review of Economics and Statistics, 2006

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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 factorsprimarily 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.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Education, Sociology and Political Science

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Racial Disparity in Unemployment (2011, background): “…terms of skill differentials (see especially Neal’s Figures 4a through 5c).2 Another piece of evidence that the black-white wage gap might be close to zero in U.S. labor markets comes from a study of college-educated men by Black et al. (2006), which makes use of detailed data on degree and major.”
Heterogeneity in Human Capital Investments: High School Curriculum, College Major, and Careers. NBER Working Paper No. 17985. (2012, unknown): “31(1):27–56 [9] Black DA, Haviland AM, Sanders SG, Taylor LJ.”
Divergent Paths: A New Perspective on Earnings Differences between Black and White Men Since 1940 (2018, background): “(2011), Black et al. (2006), and Hilger (2016). Conceptually, the positional gaps”
Causal Effects of Perceived Immutable Characteristics (2011, background): “economy (Black et al., 2006) remains a poorly defined task without implausible assumptions or further theoretical development of a causal inference framework.”
Racial Discrimination in the Labor Market: Theory and Empirics (2012, unknown): “Black et al. (2006) examine a sample of college‑educated men and find no race difference in wages once they control for other factors.”