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Up from Slavery? African American Intergenerational Economic Mobility Since 1880

Collins, William J. - 2017

We document the intergenerational mobility of black and white American men from 1880 through 2000 by building new datasets to study the late 19th and early 20th century and combining them with modern data to cover the mid- to late 20th century. We find large disparities in intergenerational...

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Separate and Unequal in the Labor Market : Human Capital and the Jim Crow Wage Gap

Carruthers, Celeste K. - 2016

The gap between black and white earnings is a longstanding feature of the United States labor market. Competing explanations attribute different weight to wage discrimination and access to human capital. Using new data on local school quality, we find that human capital played a predominant role...

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Discrimination and Worker Evaluation

Cavounidis, Costas - 2015

We develop a model of self-sustaining discrimination in wages, coupled with higher unemployment and shorter employment duration among blacks. While white workers are hired and retained indefinitely without monitoring, black workers are monitored and fired if a negative signal is received. The...

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The Great Migration in Black and White : New Evidence on the Selection and Sorting of Southern Migrants

Collins, William J. - 2015

first decades of the "Great Migration" (1910-1930). We study both whites and blacks and intra- and inter-regional migration …. While there is some evidence of positive selection, the degree of selection was small and participation in migration was …

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Municipal Housekeeping : The Impact of Women's Suffrage on Public Education

Carruthers, Celeste K. - 2015

Gains in 20th century real wages and reductions in the black-white wage gap have been linked to the mid-century ascent of school quality. With a new dataset uniquely appropriate to identifying the impact of female voter enfranchisement on education spending, we attribute up to one-third of the...

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Selection and Economic Gains in the Great Migration of African Americans : New Evidence from Linked Census Data

Collins, William J. - 2013

The onset of World War I spurred the "Great Migration" of African Americans from the U.S. South, arguably the most … important internal migration in U.S. history. We create a new panel dataset of more than 5,000 men matched from the 1910 to 1930 … census manuscripts to address three interconnected questions: To what extent was there selection into migration? How large …

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The Evolution of the Black-White Test Score Gap in Grades K-3 : The Fragility of Results

Bond, Timothy N. - 2012

Although both economists and psychometricians typically treat them as interval scales, test scores are reported using ordinal scales. Using the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study and the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey, we examine the effect of order-preserving scale transformations...

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Education and Labor-Market Discrimination

Lang, Kevin - 2006

We propose a model that combines statistical discrimination and educational sorting that explains why blacks get more education than do whites of similar cognitive ability. Our model explains the difference between blacks and whites in the relations between education and AFQT and between wages...

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Race and Gender Pay Differentials

Blau, Francine D. - 1992

In this paper we review research findings from the 1980s and early 1990s on race and gender pay gaps. In addition. we present some evidence from the Current Population Surveys (1972, 1982 and 1989) regarding the impact of shifts in the industrial composition of employment and in interindustry...

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Black-White Earnings Over the 1970s and 1980s : Gender Differences in Trends

Blau, Francine D. - 1991

This paper uses CPS data to analyze gender differences in black-white annual earnings trends over the 1970s and 1980s. We find that in at least two respects black women fared better than men over this period. First, due to decreasing relative annual time inputs for black males, but not black...

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