Explaining black-white wage convergence, 1940-1950.
During the 1940s, racial differences in wages narrowed at an unusually rapid pace. Using a decomposition technique different from that of previous studies, the author shows that wage compression between and within groups—the so-called “Great Compression”—was a major factor behind racial wage conver...
| Published in: | Industrial & Labor Relations Review Vol. 48; pp. 470 - 482 |
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Cornell University
April 1995
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