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Racial and Ethnic Differences in Nonwage Compensation
Author(s) -
Ritter Joseph A.
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
industrial relations: a journal of economy and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.61
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1468-232X
pISSN - 0019-8676
DOI - 10.1111/irel.12037
Subject(s) - spouse , ethnic group , wage , compensation (psychology) , unemployment , demographic economics , economics , distribution (mathematics) , perspective (graphical) , race (biology) , actuarial science , labour economics , psychology , social psychology , political science , sociology , economic growth , gender studies , mathematical analysis , mathematics , artificial intelligence , computer science , law
Previous research has found that, after controlling for test scores, measured black–white wage gaps are small, but unemployment gaps remain large. This article complements this previous research by examining the incidence of employer‐provided benefits from the same premarket perspective. However, marriage rates differ substantially by race, and the possibility of health insurance coverage through a spouse's employer therefore distorts how the distribution of benefits available in the market to an individual is expressed in the distribution of benefits received. Two imputation strategies are used to address this complication. The evidence suggests that benefit availability gaps are small.