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| Title: | The Wage Gains of African-American Women in the 1940s |
| Authors: | Bailey, Martha J.
Collins, William J. |
| Issue Date: | Jun-2004 |
| Publisher: | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University |
| Citation: | Bailey, Martha J. and William J. Collins. "The Wage Gains of African-American Women in the 1940s." Working Paper No. 04-W16. Dept. of Economics, Vanderbilt University. Nashville, TN, June 2004. |
| Series/Report no.: | Working Paper;No. 04-W16 |
| Abstract: | The weekly wage gap between black and white female workers narrowed by 15 percentage points during the 1940s. We employ a semi-parametric technique to decompose changes in the distribution of wages. We find that changes in worker characteristics (such as education, occupation and industry, and region of residence) can account for a significant portion of wage convergence between black and white women, but that changes in the wage structure, including large black-specific gains within regions, occupations, industries, and educational groups, made the largest contributions. The single most important contributing factor to the observed convergence was a sharp increase in the relative wages of service workers (where black workers were heavily concentrated) even as black women moved out of domestic service jobs. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1803/29 |
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