Wages for black and white workers are substantially lower in occupations with a high density of black employees … equations, the magnitude of the correlation falls sharply after controlling for occupational skills. Longitudinal estimates … support a "quality sorting" explanation, with racial density serving as an index of unmeasured skills. Although past …

. -- Skills ; disability ; job matching ; earnings ; job satisfaction …

female wages rose almost unabated from 1890 to the early-1990s in the United States (with the exception of about 1940 …

knowledge are most influential in explaining earnings variations. Marketable skills actually acquired in school depend on these …

the gap is due to low-wage women becoming more likely to receive their wages in full than low-wage men in 2000 …. Furthermore, the wage gap is stable for those who consistently receive full wages …