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Title: Updated Estimates of Hispanic-White Wage Gaps for Men and Women
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Publication Year: 2013
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Abstract: We incorporate controls for cost of living in updated estimates of Hispanic-white wage gaps for men and women using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97). Conditional on pre-market skills (i.e., years of education and AFQT score) and cost of living, Hispanic men earn significantly lower hourly wages than non-Hispanic white men. The gap is concentrated among men with relatively low levels of educationhigh school degree or less. Conditional on pre-market skills, Hispanic women earn significantly higher wages than non-Hispanic white women, but the difference disappears after controlling for cost of living. We also show that non-immigrant Hispanics in the NLSY97 are rather representative of non-immigrant Hispanics in the U.S. overall (measured with the larger American Community Survey). However, immigrant Hispanics in the NLSY97 have higher levels of education and wages than the immigrant Hispanics in the ACS, even after restricting to those ACS respondents who have been in the U.S. since 1997. Researchers should take this limitation into account when extrapolating results for Hispanic immigrants in the NLSY97 to the Hispanic population as a whole.
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Authors: McHenry, Peter; McInerney, Melissa
Publisher: College of William and Mary
Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Gender, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Race and Ethnicity
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