A New Look at the Causes of the Improved Economic Status of Black Workers

Greg Duncan () and Saul Hoffman ()

Journal of Human Resources, 1983, vol. 18, issue 2, 268-282

Abstract: The wage differential between black and white men fell from 40 percent in 1960 to 25 percent in 1980. It has been argued that this convergence reflects improvements in the relative quality of black schools. To test this hypothesis, we assembled data on ...

Date: 1983
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