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From Dark to Light: Skin Color and Wages among African-Americans
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Goldsmith, Arthur H.; Hamilton, Darrick; Darity, William, Jr. – Journal of Human Resources, 2007
This paper develops and tests a theory, referred to as "preference for whiteness," which predicts that the interracial (white-black) and intraracial wage gap widens as the skin shade of the black worker darkens. Using data drawn from the Multi City Study of Urban Inequality and the National Survey of Black Americans, we report evidence…
Descriptors: Wages, African Americans, Comparable Worth, Racial Bias