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Title: WAGE DISPARITY OF NON-HISPANIC WHITE AND MEXICAN POPULATIONS IN CALIFORNIA
Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis
Publication Year: 2015
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Abstract: This paper examines the 2010 wage of Mexican and non-Hispanic White full-time workers in California, compares each of the significant factors that contribute the difference in Mexican and non-Hispanic Whites wages and attempts to find an explanation for the wage gap. Using the technique/method of ordinary least squares to find a regression of the wage rate equation for each race group: Mexicans and nonHispanic Whites. Sensitivity analysis is being preformed after running the regression to observe the changes in the educational, English Proficiency, and age coefficients. The initial hypothesis of this paper is that Mexican workers earn less than non-Hispanic White workers in the labor market based on the findings of similar research, and the results of the regression conducted produces support. This paper find the average age of Mexicans is 5 years younger than the average age of non-Hispanic Whites in the labor market. The average educational level of the Mexicans is a high school diploma, and average educational level of non-Hispanic White is at least an Associate degree. Also the wage gap between male and female workers is smaller for Mexican population than the wage gap in non-Hispanic White population. A Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition performed in this paper shows that 81.63% of the wage gap can be explained to the characteristic effects, and 18.37% of the wage gap is unexplained and possibly due to discrimination.
Url: http://scholarworks.calstate.edu/bitstream/handle/10211.3/145516/HuangBo_Project_2015.pdf?sequence=3
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Authors: Huang, Bo
Institution: California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
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Publisher Location: California
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Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Race and Ethnicity
Countries: United States