Relative changes in gender and race-based earnings costs, 1970-1995

Garey Durden and Patricia Gaynor

Applied Economics Letters, 2000, vol. 7, issue 6, 401-404

Abstract: The major purpose of this paper is to determine absolute and relative changes in gender and race based, inflation-adjusted earnings costs over the period 1970-1995. Yearly estimated earnings comparisons of white males with white females, African-American males and females suggest that total earnings gaps have narrowed considerably. For African-American males, remaining costs are mostly associated with labour market and other measurable differences. For white and African-American females, however, the unexplained, possibly discriminatory portion of the earnings gap has increased in absolute (as compared to white males) and relative terms (as compared to African-American males).

Date: 2000
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DOI: 10.1080/135048500351357

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