Differences in earnings, skills and labour market experience among young black and white men

Paul Gabriel

Applied Economics Letters, 2004, vol. 11, issue 6, 337-341

Abstract: This study examines the role of racial differences in skills and labour market experience on recent earnings differences between young black and white men. Our analysis of the 2000 sample of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1979 Cohort (NLSY79), indicates that nearly all of the earnings gap between black and white men can be accounted for with a relatively parsimonious empirical model. In particular, it finds that approximately 44% of the racial earnings gap results from higher average skill and work experience levels of white men.

Date: 2004
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DOI: 10.1080/1350485042000228150

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