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Author: Kasten, Richard A.
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Hall, Robert E. Kasten, Richard A. |
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The Relative Occupational Success of Blacks and Whites Brookings Papers on Economic Activity 1973,3 (1973): 781-795. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2534208 Cohort(s): Young Men Publisher: Brookings Institution Keyword(s): Discrimination, Racial/Ethnic; Employment; Occupational Status; Socioeconomic Status (SES); Wages Within the labor market, blacks suffer relative to whites in two ways: first, blacks are less likely to have high- paying occupations than whites; and, second, within each occupation, they are paid less. The authors divide the total deficit in black earnings into components attributable to the occupational and wage dimensions. They find that they are approximately equal in size. They study the occupational component in detail, attempting to subdivide it into two parts; differences arising from the unequal treatment of blacks and whites in the labor market and differences arising from the unequal endowments of the two groups. |
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Hall, Robert E. and Richard A. Kasten. "The Relative Occupational Success of Blacks and Whites." Brookings Papers on Economic Activity 1973,3 (1973): 781-795.
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Kasten, Richard A. |
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Studies of Occupation Mobility for Black and White Men Ph.D. Dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1975 Cohort(s): Older Men Publisher: UMI - University Microfilms, Bell and Howell Information and Learning Keyword(s): Mobility; Racial Differences This thesis consists of two studies of the occupational distributions of black and white males. In the first part the occupational success of older men was studied to determine if the civil rights movement and the low unemployment at the end of the 1960s had any effect on the relative occupational success of older black males. It was found that there was little improvement in the treatment of these men and that blacks did not fare as well in the labor market as whites with identical characteristics. Only a small part of the differential between the occupation distributions of blacks and whites would be eliminated if the mobility probabilities estimated for 1969 were maintained indefinitely. About 40 percent of the gap which would remain cannot be explained by blacks' poor educations and unstable marriages. The second part of the thesis is a discussion of how rapidly the occupation gap between black and white men would narrow if blacks and whites with the same characteristics had identical distributions of occupations. A model of education, occupations, and demography was estimated and used to project the 1970 population and its descendants to the year 2000. It was found that nearly half of the gap will be closed by 1990, but, since blacks, especially blacks from broken families, are predicted to get less education than whites from similar backgrounds, the occupation distributions of blacks will remain below the white distribution as long as black educational and demographic probabilities remain at their 1969 levels. |
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Bibliography Citation
Kasten, Richard A. Studies of Occupation Mobility for Black and White Men. Ph.D. Dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1975. |