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.
Recommended Citation
Cotton, J. (1988). ON THE DECOMPOSITION OF WAGE DIFFERENTIALS. Review Of Economics & Statistics, 70(2), 236.
Publisher
MIT Press
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Comments
Published in The Review of Economics and Statistics: http://www.mitpressjournals.org/loi/rest