Search Results

Author: Lewis, Kenneth
Resulting in 3 citations.
1. Link, Charles R.
Ratledge, Edward C.
Lewis, Kenneth
Black-White Differences in Returns to Schooling: Some New Evidence
American Economic Review 66,1 (March 1976): 221-223.
Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1804965
Cohort(s): Young Men
Publisher: American Economic Association
Keyword(s): Earnings; Educational Costs; Educational Returns; Racial Differences; Schooling

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

The findings show that improved quality of education, as opposed to differential vintage effects, is responsible for blacks' relative income gains. For blacks, the interaction between years of schooling and expenditures may partially explain other researchers' pessimistic findings that education has little impact on black earnings. This note on Welch's l973 article in the American Economic Review supports the hypothesis that improved quality of black education is responsible for blacks' relative income gains.
Bibliography Citation
Link, Charles R., Edward C. Ratledge and Kenneth Lewis. "Black-White Differences in Returns to Schooling: Some New Evidence." American Economic Review 66,1 (March 1976): 221-223.
2. Link, Charles R.
Ratledge, Edward C.
Lewis, Kenneth
Male-Female and Black-White Discrimination in the Labor Market
Presented: San Francisco, CA, Econometric Society Meeting, 1974
Cohort(s): Mature Women, Older Men, Young Men, Young Women
Publisher: Econometric Society
Keyword(s): Discrimination, Racial/Ethnic; Discrimination, Sex; Employment; Job Training; Occupational Status; Wages

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

In the present paper, some light is shed on the causes of male-female and black-white wage differentials. One of the important contributions of the present research is to compare the results for a more recent cohort of young people with earlier studies which examined older cohorts of persons over age twenty-five. In this paper we employ the measure of discrimination proposed by Alan Blinder, which involves decomposing characteristics into differences arising from endowments (differences in mean values) and differences in coefficients (market rewards for given levels of endowments).
Bibliography Citation
Link, Charles R., Edward C. Ratledge and Kenneth Lewis. "Male-Female and Black-White Discrimination in the Labor Market." Presented: San Francisco, CA, Econometric Society Meeting, 1974.
3. Link, Charles R.
Ratledge, Edward C.
Lewis, Kenneth
The Quality of Education and Cohort Variation in Black-White Earnings Differentials: Reply
American Economic Review 70,1 (March 1980): 196-203.
Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1814750
Cohort(s): Young Men
Publisher: American Economic Association
Keyword(s): Earnings; Educational Attainment; Educational Costs; Educational Returns; Racial Differences; Wage Gap

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

This paper examines two data sets in order to further examine Welch's contention that: (1) blacks for the past several years have begun to receive monetary benefits from education commensurate with those of whites; and (2) that the gap has narrowed because of a relative upgrading of educational quality for blacks. Counter to Akin and Garfinkel and in support of Welch, it was found that the gap in percentage returns to schooling has narrowed for blacks in younger cohorts. Contrary to Akin and Garfinkel and in support of Welch, we find percentage returns to schooling and to quality for the younger black cohorts were found to be commensurate with those for whites. In fact, it was found that percentage returns to schooling and to quality to be somewhat more favorable for younger blacks than for whites. Akin and Garfinkel are quick to point out, however, that even if percentage returns are comparable, absolute wage rate differences still favor whites. Thus they warn that equal percentage returns to blacks and whites are not necessarily an indication of equal earnings for equally competent workers. While Akin and Garfinkel compute implied wages to be greater for young whites than blacks, these results are not as disheartening and are mixed, depending upon which model specification is adopted. Consistent with Welch, however, a narrowing in the implied black white hourly wage gap for younger cohorts was found.
Bibliography Citation
Link, Charles R., Edward C. Ratledge and Kenneth Lewis. "The Quality of Education and Cohort Variation in Black-White Earnings Differentials: Reply." American Economic Review 70,1 (March 1980): 196-203.