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This paper uses the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth Labor Market Experience to examine whether, as Freeman has contended, wage differentials based on race have largely vanished from the labor market for young men. The evidence indicates that there is still a significant black-white...
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Examination of wage differentials between unionized and non-unionized employment in both government and private sectors in the United States. Review of related studies; Discussion of the union wage effects in the public and private sectors; Data and methodology; Analysis of empirical results for...
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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...
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