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Employment Contacts and Minority‐White Wage Differences
Author(s) -
KORENMAN SANDERS,
TURNER SUSAN C.
Publication year - 1996
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/j.1468-232x.1996.tb00397.x
Subject(s) - wage , race (biology) , labour economics , economics , white (mutation) , demographic economics , national longitudinal surveys , sociology , gender studies , biochemistry , chemistry , gene
We study effects of job contacts on wages in inner‐city Boston in 1989 and in the 1982 NLSY. Race/Hispanicity differences in wages are not explained by an absence of contacts among minority youths. Rather, in the Boston data, lower wages of black youths are explained by lower “returns” to their contacts. In the NLSY there is little evidence of lower return to black youths' contacts, but there is evidence of lower returns to Hispanic youths' contacts.