Physicians Survey. The results suggest that potential discrimination plays a small role in the racial wage gap among physicians …. At most, discrimination lowers the hourly wages of black physicians by 3.3 percent. Decomposition shows that consumer … may actually favor black physicians. Interpretations of the estimates, however, are complicated by the possibility that …

Important differences in labor market characteristics suggest that men and women physicians may be viewed as imperfect … practices, may have (unintentionally) favored female physicians. Using data from the Young Physicians Survey, the author … compares changes in the gender earnings gap for physicians in states with high versus low managed care growth during the 1980s …

. -- gender-earnings gap ; family-earnings gap ; labour force attachment ; decomposition methods ; family physicians ; MABEL …