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“Explaining Differences in Economic Performance among Racial and Ethnic Groups in the USA: The Data Examined”
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A bstract. By utilizing self‐reported race and ancestry in the 1980 and 1990 USA censuses and the Blinder‐Oaxaca decomposition technique, the extent of wage discrimination experienced by women and by men is examined across 50 ethnic/racial groups. Systematic evidence of negative discrimination is revealed in both census years for Asian, Indian, black (African‐American), Vietnamese, Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, and Native American males. To assess the charge that the Blinder‐Oaxaca decomposition indicates cultural rather than discriminatory differentials, two additional data experiments are performed—one that controls for color and varies culture, and one that controls for culture and varies color. Race appears to matter.
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“The finding that black-white racial gaps in individual income are substantially larger for men than women is consistent with prior literature showing that black-white wage disparities are smaller for women than men in the cross-section (Darity, Guilkey, and Winfrey 1996; Neal and Johnson 1996; Altonji and Blank 1999; Bayard et al. 1999; Blau 2012).”
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- Authors
- Darity, W., Guilkey, D. K., & Winfrey, W.
- Affiliations
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
- ORCID
- Darity, William
- Venue
- The American Journal of Economics and Sociology
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 1996-10
- Volume
- 55
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 411-425
- ISSN
- 0002-9246 (ISSN-L)
- 1536-7150
- OpenAlex
- W1579868717
- Cited by
- 84
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 6.05
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- American Journal of Economics and Sociology (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Labor market dynamics and wage inequality
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Names, Identity, and Discrimination Research
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Labour Market and Migration
- Keywords
- racial wage differentials, Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition, women's wages, Asian Americans, African Americans, Native Americans, Hispanic Americans
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