The Effect of Educational Differences and Labor-Market Discrimination on the Relative Earnings of Black Males

Stanley H. Masters

Journal of Human Resources, 1974, vol. 9, issue 3, 342-360

Abstract: Using both the 1967 Survey of Economic Opportunity and the 1/1,000 sample of the 1960 Census, we find that much more of the racial earnings gap should be attributed to labor-market discrimination than to differences in years of school. Although differences in scholastic attainment have more effect than differences in years of school per se, labor-market discrimination remains important even when productivity differences are measured primarily in terms of predicted test scores rather than years of school.

Date: 1974
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