Racial and Ethnic Gaps in Male Earnings in a Booming Urban Economy

Barry Bluestone () and Mary Stevenson ()
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Barry Bluestone: Center for Urban and Regional Policy, Northeastern University
Mary Stevenson: Economics Department, University of Massachusetts, Boston

Eastern Economic Journal, 1999, vol. 25, issue 2, 209-238

Abstract: Inner city labor markets have been described as "jobless ghettos" where deindustrialization has left an underclass with no more than a tenuous attachment to the mainstream economy. This article investigates whether the same phenomenon exists in a booming, diverse market. The results suggest that the labor force participation rates of black, Hispanic, and white men with limited schooling are identical and that hourly wages converge after controlling for human capital. Nevertheless, black men suffer low annual earnings due to high job turnover and part-time work prevalent in the industries and occupations to which they have access.

Keywords: Earnings; Hourly Wages; Racial; Wage (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J15 J31 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
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