Employment Contacts and Minority‐White Wage Differences
- 1 January 1996
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society
- Vol. 35 (1) , 106-122
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-232x.1996.tb00397.x
Abstract
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.This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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