Male White-Black Wage Gaps, 1979-1994: A Distributional Analysis

September 7, 2005

Examines whether the increased variance of wages in skill distribution during the 1980s explains the growth in within-group white-black wage gaps.

Examines whether the increased variance of wages in skill distribution during the 1980s explains the growth in within-group white-black wage gaps, develops a skill-specific decomposition that measures the variance’s contribution to the wage gap’s growth at various skill levels of the distribution, and shows that the wage distribution’s variance is an important contributor to the overall wage gap’s growth.

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