Hispanic women in the US. The first part examines 1990 and 2002, two years with very similar national unemployment levels, and … the poverty levels of black and Hispanic women would be different if they were paid the same wages as white women with the … same characteristics. The results show that for the working poor black women the difference in poverty rates would be small …

participation and employment among young men and women to control for confounding factors (such as changes in educational … to characteristics among young black men and women than among young white men and women explain the observed trends. …