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Deprived? Privileged? Or Just Deviated? Unequal Resources and Differential Returns to Resources in Explaining Gender, Race, and Sector Differences in Earnings Attainment Among Young Career Workers Ph.D. Dissertation, Southern Illinois University At Carbondale, 1993. DAI-A 54/08, p. 3226, Feb 1994 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: UMI - University Microfilms, Bell and Howell Information and Learning Keyword(s): Earnings; Gender Differences; Heterogeneity; Racial Differences; Variables, Independent - Covariate; Wage Gap In this research I present an analysis of sex, race, and sector differences in earnings attainment among young workers, using the National Longitudinal Surveys data. The separate analyses of earnings for females and males affirm that the gender earnings gap is not principally rooted in differences in the level of the worker characteristics. For example, differences in educational attainment between females and males are very small, with differences usually favoring females. By contrast, the single most prominent worker characteristic in explaining the race earnings gap is found to be education. When the effects of sex, race, and economic sector are analyzed interactively, I found no evidence of a three-way interaction effect. But both sex and race, and sex and sector seem to interact with each other positively, but more so between sex and race. When the effects of sex and race are analyzed at three different career stages over time, I found that the positive interaction between sex and race increases as one's career progresses. When the effects of moving in and out of economic sectors on earnings are analyzed, both white females and males are more likely to be affected by intersectoral mobility than black males and females. For white males and females, moving from core to periphery sectors is found to be costly, but the reverse is not necessarily true. The implications of these findings for both the individual and the structural perspectives of earnings inequality are multifarious. For the individual perspectives, the seven covariates are in general statistically significant predictors across gender, race, and sector groups. On the other hand, the degree of explanatory power of the supply variables varies considerably across gender, race, and sectoral groups. Further, the combined explanatory power of the supply variables seems to lose its importance over time. For the structural perspectives, the sector effect on earnings is quite significant and remains rather substantial even after the confounding effects, such as sex and race, are removed. Ironically, the sector effect on earnings is greatly reduced when the supply variables are held constant. That is, the unequal level of the supply variables between the sectoral groups persists across all gender-race groups. But, when analyzed within each gender-race group, earnings determination processes by the two sectoral groups are found to be quite homogeneous. |
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Kim, Young Min. Deprived? Privileged? Or Just Deviated? Unequal Resources and Differential Returns to Resources in Explaining Gender, Race, and Sector Differences in Earnings Attainment Among Young Career Workers. Ph.D. Dissertation, Southern Illinois University At Carbondale, 1993. DAI-A 54/08, p. 3226, Feb 1994. |