Against All Odds: The Surprising Labor Market Success of Young Mexican Women

Heather Antecol and Kelly Bedard ()

Canadian International Labour Network Working Papers from McMaster University

Abstract: Using the NLSY, we find that young Mexican women earn 11.7% less than young White women while young Black women earn 19.2% less than young White women. Although young Mexican women earn less than young White women, they do surprisingly well compared to young Black women. We show that while it is crucially important to account for actual labor market experience, it does not matter if we account for childbirth patterns, and non-linearities in the experience profile. We further show that low labor force attachment is the most important determinant of the Black-White wage differential for young women while education is the most important explanation for the Mexican-White wage gap for young women.

Pages: 20 pages
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-pbe
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/econ/rsrch/papers/CILN/cilnwp26.pdf (application/pdf)
Our link check indicates that this URL is bad, the error code is: 404 Not Found (http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/econ/rsrch/papers/CILN/cilnwp26.pdf [302 Moved Temporarily]--> https://socialsciences.mcmaster.ca/econ/rsrch/papers/CILN/cilnwp26.pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:mcm:cilnwp:26

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Canadian International Labour Network Working Papers from McMaster University Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by ().