Male White-Black Wage Gaps, 1979--1994: A Distributional Analysis.
This paper examines whether the ‘stretching’ (increased variance of wages) of the skill distribution during the 1980s explains the growth in within-group white-black wage gaps. The paper also develops a skill-specific decomposition that measures the stretching's contribution to the wage gap's growth...
| Publicado en: | Southern Economic Journal Vol. 72; no. 4; pp. 773 - 794 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Apr2006
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