Divergent paths. Structural change, economic rank, and the evolution of black-white earnings differences, 1940-2014.

Autor/inn/en	Bayer, Patrick; Charles, Kerwin Kofi
Institution	National Bureau of Economic Research
Titel	Divergent paths. Structural change, economic rank, and the evolution of black-white earnings differences, 1940-2014. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Abweichende Pfade. Strukturwandel, Einkommensposition und die Entwicklung des Einkommensunterschieds zwischen Farbigen und Weißen, 1940-2014.
Quelle	Cambridge, Mass. (2016), 77 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	NBER working paper. 22797
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie
DOI	10.3386/w22797
Schlagwörter	Bildungsertrag; Bildungsabschluss; Einkommensunterschied; Einkommenshöhe; Lohnhöhe; Berufliche Stellung; Erwerbsbeteiligung; Erwerbstätiger; Qualifikation; Entwicklung; Schwarzer; Weißer; USA
Abstract	"Studying working and non-working men, we find that, after closing substantially from 1940 to the mid-1970s, the median black-white earnings gap has since returned to its 1950 level, while the positional rank the median black man would hold in the white distribution has remained little changed since 1940. By contrast, higher quantile black men have experienced substantial gains in both relative earnings levels and their positional rank in the white earnings distribution. Using a new decomposition method that extends existing approaches to account for non-participation, we show that the gains of black men at higher quantiles have been driven primarily by positional gains within education level due to forces like improved access to quality schools and declining occupational exclusion. At the median and below, strong racial convergence in educational attainment has been counteracted by the rising returns to education in the labor market, which have disproportionately disadvantaged the shrinking but still substantial share of blacks with lower education." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2017/2