On the Decomposition of Wage Differentials

Authors

Jeremiah Cotton, University of Massachusetts Boston

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

5-1988

Abstract

The often used method for decomposing wage differentials into human capital and discrimination components is reformulated so that both the disadvantage, or "cost," discrimination imposes on a black or minority wage earner and the advantage, or "benefit," it bestows on a white or majority wage earner can be estimated.

Comments

Published in The Review of Economics and Statistics: http://www.mitpressjournals.org/loi/rest

Recommended Citation

Cotton, J. (1988). ON THE DECOMPOSITION OF WAGE DIFFERENTIALS. Review Of Economics & Statistics, 70(2), 236.

Publisher

MIT Press

Rights

Copyright for this article is held by MIT Press.