Race-Specific Agglomeration Economies: Social Distance and the Black-White Wage Gap

The Reverse Wage Gap among Educated White and Black Women*

We find that black female nurses earn 9 percent more at the mean and median than white female nurses, even when controlling for selection into nursing employment, using the 2004 National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses (NSSRN). Typically, recent research examining the female black/white wage gap among the general population finds that the gap widens when controlling for selection. Our findin...

Performance Pay and the White-Black Wage Gap

We show that the reported tendency for performance pay to be associated with greater wage inequality at the top of the earnings distribution applies only to white workers. This results in the white-black wage differential among those in performance pay jobs growing over the earnings distribution even as the same differential shrinks over the distribution for those not in performance pay jobs. W...

The Widening Black-White Wage Gap among Women

We utilize over 30 years of the Current Population Survey to examine labor force participation and wage patterns among five cohorts of white and black women. By estimating wages using four selection correction techniques in determining the wage gap for women who are not in the labor force, we provide evidence of the changing role of selection among women over time. We find an increasing observe...

Poverty, social disadvantage, and the black/white placement gap

The Structure of Disadvantage: Individual and OccupationalDeterminants of the Black-White Wage Gap