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Title: Running in Place: Black-White Inequality in the United States and Brazil

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Publication Year: 2017

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Abstract: The relative incomes and education-levels of blacks and whites in the United States and Brazil are considered after Abolition, and framed by earlier disparities in their natural rates of increase. For the post-WWII period, the effects of demography, education, and regional migration on the black-white income gap are disentangled using census microdata and a single-equation form Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition. These variables explain progressively less of income inequality over time: as others have suggested, factors like discrimination and school quality have become more-substantial determinants of relative earnings. Education, measured by literacy or primary- school completion, was the major factor in reducing income gaps during this period, followed by demography and migration. While both countries have made gains towards racial equality, their timing is entirely divergent: the best decade in these terms for the U.S. was the 1960s, and the worst, the 2000s; vice-versa for Brazil.

Url: https://cbe.wwu.edu/files/Economics/Black White Ineq US Brazil - Bucciferro.pdf

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Authors: Bucciferro, Justin, R

Publisher: Eastern Washington University

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Other, Race and Ethnicity

Countries: United States