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- Title
THE RELATIVE EARNINGS OF BLACKS AND OTHER MINORITIES.
- Authors
Gwartney, James D.; Long, James E.
- Abstract
This paper uses 1960 and 1970 census data to compare the earnings of whites with the earnings of eight racial or ethnic minorities: Japanese, Chinese, Mexican Americans, Filipinos, Puerto Ricans, American Indians, Cubans, and blacks. Relative earnings are found lo vary substantially among these minority groups, with Japanese and Chinese high and blacks and Mexican Americans low in earnings compared to white males and females. Tile only groups for which the authors find large increases in relative earnings during the 1960s are the Japanese, Puerto Rican, and black males. The authors demonstrate that these earnings differentials arise from differences in personal characteristics, such as age and education, and also from ‘residual’ factors, such ns discrimination, with the relative importance of those two categories of factors differing among minority groups.
- Subjects
UNITED States; PAY equity; EMPLOYMENT of African Americans; EMPLOYMENT of minorities; EMPLOYMENT of Americans; INCOME inequality; EMPLOYMENT discrimination; EQUAL pay for equal work laws; LABOR laws
- Publication
ILR Review, 1978, Vol 31, Issue 3, p336
- ISSN
0019-7939
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/001979397803100304