Labor-Market Dropouts and the Racial Wage Gap: 1940-1990

By A. Chandra. 2000

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The Effects of Social Networks on Employment and Inequality (2004, background): “Amitabh Chandra (2000) provides a breakdown of differences in participation rates by education level and other characteristics, and finds ratios of a similar magnitude.”
The Place Premium : Wage Differences for Identical Workers Across the US Border (2008, background): “Chandra (2000) documents the substantial narrowing of the black-white wage gap between 1940 and 1990, and Heckman, Lyons, and Todd (2000) suggest that some substantial portion of the narrowing during this period remains unexplained by changes in observable characteristics other than race.”
Racial Discrimination in the Labor Market: Theory and Empirics (2012, unknown): “While adding the military would somewhat reduce the racial discrepancy, including the incarcerated population would worsen it noticeably (Chandra 2000; Western and Pettit 2005).”
People Skills and the Labor-Market Outcomes of Underrepresented Groups (2014, methodology): “Using U.S. census data, Chandra (2000) reported that labormarket participation among prime- aged black men was considerably lower than the labor- market participation of white men in the period 1940 to 1990.”