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Title: Comments and Discussion

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Publication Year: 2021

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Abstract: More precisely, this ambitious, thought-provoking paper asks, “How much larger would the US economic pie be if opportunities and outcomes were more equally distributed by race and ethnicity?” The authors evaluate the impact on the labor contribution to GDP over thirty years in light of the question, What if Black and Hispanic workers had outcomes similar to those of non-Hispanic white workers? They focus on five outcomes of interest: employment, hours of work, educational attainment, educational utilization, and earnings gaps not explained by these and other productivity-related indicators. There are three notable features of this paper by comparison with the previous literature on the benefits of closing labor market gaps.

Url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/27133175

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Authors: Fortin, Nicole; Hurst, Erik

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Race and Ethnicity

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