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PART‐TIME STATUS AND HOURLY EARNINGS OF BLACK AND WHITE MEN
Author(s) -
Leeds Michael A.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
economic inquiry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.823
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1465-7295
pISSN - 0095-2583
DOI - 10.1111/j.1465-7295.1990.tb01238.x
Subject(s) - earnings , economics , white (mutation) , labour economics , race (biology) , work (physics) , demographic economics , sociology , finance , engineering , gender studies , biochemistry , chemistry , gene , mechanical engineering
Labor economists now believe that wages and hours are jointly determined, creating a premium in the hourly pay of full‐time workers. The size and nature of this premium, however, varies considerably by race. It is shown here that full‐time work carries a far lower premium for black workers than for white workers and has very different implications for blacks' occupational status.