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Title: Basic Skills, Occupational Training, and Wage Differentials Between Young Black and White Males
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Maxwell, Nan L. |
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Basic Skills, Occupational Training, and Wage Differentials Between Young Black and White Males Presented: Washington, DC, Population Association of America Meetings, 1991 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB); Education; Job Tenure; Job Training; Occupations; Racial Differences; Skills; Training, Occupational; Wage Differentials; Wages, Young Men Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper empirically examines the interrelationships between prelabor market skills, on-the-job training as it occurs within occupations, wages, and race. Using data from the NLSY, the lower level of basic skills of blacks is linked to subsequent wage reductions and racial wage differentials. While fewer prelabor market skills do not directly reduce on-the-job training, blacks' employment in less skilled occupations does impede their acquisition of on-the-job training. Thus, blacks' lower level of both prelabor market and labor market skill accumulation is a primary determination of racial wage differentials for youth. In fact, by increasing blacks' basic skills and occupational training to white levels, racial wage differences all but disappear. |
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Maxwell, Nan L. "Basic Skills, Occupational Training, and Wage Differentials Between Young Black and White Males." Presented: Washington, DC, Population Association of America Meetings, 1991. |