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Title: The Growing Racial Pay Gap is Linked to Rising Income Inequality and Continued Occupational Segregation and Discrimination
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Publication Year: 2016
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Abstract: Following the implementation of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the enactment of affirmative action policies in the United States, both the educational level and the relative income of black men and women rose steadily. Consequently, earnings disparities between blacks and whites declined; this trend continued until the end of the 20th Century, for both genders. But from the turn of the new millennium, however, the trend reversed for the first time since 1970, for both men and women. Given the continual convergence in pay between blacks and whites and the gender differences in the size and in the sources of the pay gaps, the reversal of the trend among both gender groups is most intriguing. Our analysis – based on the IPUMS Census and ACS data – covers the period following the Civil Right Act (1970), and stretches into the new millennium, beyond the 2008 economic crisis and up until 2013. Our findings give firm support to several expectations, while leaving others open to debate. First, as shown in Figure 1 below, our expectation of much smaller racial gaps between women than between men was firmly supported. In addition, the unexplained portion of the pay gap – the indicator . . .
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Authors: Mandel, Hadas; Semyonov, Moshe
Publisher: Tel Aviv University
Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Housing and Segregation, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Other, Race and Ethnicity
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