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Title: Disentangling Occupational Sorting from Within-Occupation Disparities: Earnings Differences among 12 GenderRace/Ethnicity Groups in the U.S.
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Publication Year: 2021
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Abstract: By distinguishing among 426 occupational categories, but without including them as control variables, this paper explores the role that occupations play in explaining the wage differences among White, Black, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, and “other race” men and women were these groups analogous in terms of education credentials, immigration profile, English proficiency, region of residence, metropolitan area size, and other relevant attributes. We find that White, Black, Hispanic, Native American, and “other race” women derive important conditional wage disadvantages due to both their occupational sorting and underpayment within occupations. Occupational segregation impacts especially Black women whereas underpayment within occupation affects especially Native American women. On the contrary, White and Asian men not only tend to be concentrated in highly paid occupations beyond what would be expected as based on their characteristics, but also out-earn other groups within occupations. Black men is the only male group that tends to be concentrated in low-paid occupations after controlling for attributes. However, the male group that underpayment affects most within occupations is not Black but Native American men (although they are less affected than Native American women). This paper also provides a graphical analysis that allows identifying the occupations that bring losses/gains to the groups beyond what is expected as based on the groups’ characteristics.
Url: https://www.equalitas.es/sites/default/files/WP-75.pdf
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Authors: Alonso-Villar, Olga; del Rio, Coral
Series Title: EQUALITAS
Publication Number: 75
Institution: Universidade de Vigo
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Publisher Location: Vigo
Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Gender, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Race and Ethnicity
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