Contributions of Skills to the Racial Wage Gap

IF 1.6 3区经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS

Journal of Human Capital Pub Date : 2019-08-21 DOI:10.1086/704322

M. Petre

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Abstract

Analyzing the distributions of wages, cognitive, and noncognitive skills for white, black, and Hispanic men reveals differences throughout these distributions. I use data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 and unconditional quantile Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions to decompose observed wage gaps throughout the distribution into portions explained by cognitive and noncognitive skills. Noncognitive skills explain 2–4 percent of the wage gap between blacks and whites and 9–25 percent of the wage gap throughout the distribution between Hispanics and whites, whereas cognitive skills explain 8–70 and 24–90 percent, respectively. Between blacks and Hispanics, noncognitive skills explain 5–10 percent and cognitive skills 9–24 percent.

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技能对种族工资差距的贡献

分析白人、黑人和西班牙裔男性的工资、认知和非认知技能的分布，可以发现这些分布之间的差异。我使用1979年全国青年纵向调查的数据和无条件分位数瓦哈卡-布林德分解，将整个分布中观察到的工资差距分解为认知技能和非认知技能所解释的部分。非认知技能解释了黑人和白人之间2-4%的工资差距和西班牙裔和白人之间9-25%的工资差距，而认知技能分别解释了8-70%和24-90%。在黑人和西班牙裔之间，非认知技能占5%至10%，认知技能占9%至24%。

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Journal of Human Capital ECONOMICS-

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期刊介绍： Journal of Human Capital is dedicated to human capital and its expanding economic and social roles in the knowledge economy. Developed in response to the central role human capital plays in determining the production, allocation, and distribution of economic resources and in supporting long-term economic growth, JHC is a forum for theoretical and empirical work on human capital—broadly defined to include education, health, entrepreneurship, and intellectual and social capital—and related public policy analyses. JHC encompasses microeconomic, macroeconomic, and international economic perspectives on the theme of human capital. The journal offers a platform for discussion of topics ranging from education, labor, health, and family economics.