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Do Sheepskin Effects Help Explain Racial Earnings Differences?
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Bitzan, John D. – Economics of Education Review, 2009
This study examines the role of sheepskin effects in explaining white-black earnings differences. The study finds significant differences in sheepskin effects between white men and black men, with white men receiving higher rewards for lower level signals (degrees of a college education or less) and black men receiving higher rewards for higher…
Descriptors: Salary Wage Differentials, Rewards, Whites, Males
Educational Disparity and the Persistence of the Black-White Wage Gap in the U.S.
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O'Gorman, Melanie – Economics of Education Review, 2010
This paper examines the relationship between contemporary racial inequality of schooling and the black-white wage gap in the U.S. In particular I ask: what policies would be effective at reducing the black-white wage gap in the U.S.? In order to address this question, I develop a model of human capital accumulation in which agents differ by race.…
Descriptors: Wages, Human Capital, Taxes, African American Education
Rural Wages and Returns to Education: Differences between Whites, Blacks, and American Indians.
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Kimmel, Jean – Economics of Education Review, 1997
Examines racial and gender wage differences for rural workers, using wage equations derived from G.S. Becker's human capital model. With the rural focus, American Indian males and black females experience the weakest wage returns to education within their respective genders. Discrimination seems more prevalent in the rural female labor market,…
Descriptors: Blacks, Elementary Secondary Education, Racial Differences, Racial Discrimination
Evidence on Omitted Variable Bias in Earnings Equations.
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Griffin, Peter; Ganderton, Philip T. – Economics of Education Review, 1996
Using National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data, this study finds that education rates of return vary across racial/ethnic groups because of differing human capital investments made by families in each group. School quality also matters. Nearly the entire white/black earnings gap would disappear if black children had school and home…
Descriptors: Blacks, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Quality, Elementary Secondary Education
The Effects of School Location on the Earnings of Black and White Youths.
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Sexton, Edwin A.; Nickel, Janet F. – Economics of Education Review, 1992
Hypothesizes that the labor market recognizes differences in the educational quality and quantity of urban and suburban education and rewards young workers accordingly. Estimating earnings equations for African-American and white youths shows that attendance at a central city high school does, indeed, lower earnings between 4 and 10 percent. (12…
Descriptors: Blacks, Education Work Relationship, Educational Economics, Educational Quality
Do Different Dimensions of Male High School Students' Skills Predict Labor Market Success a Decade Later? Evidence from the NLSY.
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Murnane, Richard J.; Willett, John B.; Braatz, M. Jay; Duhaldeborde, Yves – Economics of Education Review, 2001
Uses National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data to examine whether measures of male teenagers' skills (academic, reasoning, and self-esteem) predict their wages at ages 27 and 28. All three skill types help predict subsequent wages, but have differing importance in explaining white/minority wage gaps. (Contains 37 references.) (MLH)
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Adolescents, Blacks, Education Work Relationship