This paper presents an information model in which workers receiving output-based pay
experience less racial earnings discrimination than those receiving time rates and …

This study provides a basic framework for incorporating the causes of occupational
differences into analyses of racial wage differentials. Separating the influences of personal …

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 …

Objective. Debate over the causes of wage inequality have raised suggestions that, rather
than discrimination, skill differences may be the reason for racial wage disparities. The …

This study estimates earnings differentials across racial and gender groups among college
faculty, and decomposes these differentials into the components attributable to differences in …

This paper examines the effect of the racial composition of labor markets on wage rates and
the racial wage gap. The wage rates of white as well as black workers are significantly lower …

Over a decade ago, Wilson (1980) argued that race was declining in significance as a
determinant of economic rewards. In response to his critics, he asserted that young Blacks in …

The hypothesis that Black female wage earners face greater wage discrimination than their
White female or Black male counterparts is supported by evidence derived from a version of …

On the surface, the raw differentials in earnings and employment between blacks and whites
and males and females in the federal service suggest that employment opportunities are far …

A FTER more than a decade of research, the determinants and some of the consequences
of measurements of racial wage discrimination or discrimination coefficients still are a matter …