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University of Kentucky Doctoral Dissertations
Wage Inequality|Wage Decomposition|Quantile Regression|Incarceration|Statistical Discrimination
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Three Essays On The Black White Wage Gap, Nola Ogunro
Three Essays On The Black White Wage Gap, Nola Ogunro
University of Kentucky Doctoral Dissertations
During the 1960s and early 1970s, the black – white wage gap narrowed significantly, but has remained constant since the late 1980s. The black – white wage gap in the recent period may reflect differences in human capital. A key component of human capital is labor market experience. The first chapter of this dissertation examines how differences in the returns and patterns of experience accumulation affect the black – white wage gap. Accounting for differences in the nature of experience accumulation does not explain the very large gap in wages between blacks and whites. Instead, the wage gap seems to …