Recent dynamics in racial wage gap in the United States

Edmond Berisha; Ram Sewak Dubey; Zaman Zamanian

doi:10.1080/13504851.2021.1873233

Recent dynamics in racial wage gap in the United States

Edmond Berisha, Ram Sewak Dubey, Zaman Zamanian

Economics

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Abstract

Using weekly earnings data from Current Population Survey for Black and White Americans employed full time, we examine how disparities based on race stand relative to disparities between wage groups. We find that wage disparity between wage groups prevails significantly as compared to race wage gap on explaining overall wage inequality among Blacks and Whites in the United States.

Original language	English
Journal	Applied Economics Letters
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2021.1873233
State	Accepted/In press - 2021

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Decomposition
theil index
wage inequality

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