Are there racial differences in faculty salaries?

Javed Ashraf and Tayyeb Shabbir

Journal of Economics and Finance, 2006, vol. 30, issue 3, 306-316

Abstract: Many studies have used micro-level data in estimating earnings differentials by gender for college professors. None has studied racial earnings differences for faculty except by employing a dummy variable for race in its regression models. The availability of the 1993 National Study of Postsecondary Faculty has made such a study possible. We use a variant of the Oaxaca decomposition technique suggested by Cotton (1988) and Neumark (1988). Although the salaries of black faculty trail those of their white counterparts at the Associate and Full Professor levels, the reverse is true at the Assistant Professor level. The increased emphasis in recent years on increasing diversification in the racial composition of college faculty are possible explanations. Copyright Academy of Economics and Finance 2006

Date: 2006
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