Education and labor-market discrimination
By: Kevin Lang, Michael Manove.
Contributors: Manove, Michael.; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 12257; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 12257.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Description: "We propose a model that combines statistical discrimination and educational sorting that explains why blacks get more education than do whites of similar cognitive ability.  Our model explains the difference between blacks and whites in the relations between education and AFQT and between wages and education.  It cannot easily explain why, conditional only on AFQT, blacks earn no more than do whites.  It does, however, suggest, that when comparing the earnings of blacks and whites, one should control for both AFQT and education in which case a substantial black-white wage differential reemerges.  We explore and reject the hypothesis that differences in school quality between blacks and whites explain the wage and education dierentials.  Our findings support the view that some of the black-white wage dierential reflects the operation of the labor market"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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