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Title: Cognitive Skills and Black-White Wages in the United States Labor Market
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Mitra, Aparna |
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Cognitive Skills and Black-White Wages in the United States Labor Market Journal of Socio-Economics 29,4 (2000): 389-401. Also: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053535700000822 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Elsevier Keyword(s): Cognitive Ability; Educational Attainment; Educational Returns; Racial Differences; Unions; Wage Gap; Wages Data on 2,370 adults, ages 23-30, from the 1998 wave of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth are used to analyze the effects of cognitive skills on the wages of whites and African Americans in white-and blue-collar occupations. The results show that cognitive skills, net of education, are important predictors of wages across all occupations. Mathematics skills, in particular, contribute to significant wage premiums for workers in white- and blue-collar occupations, with the exception of blacks in blue-collar professions, where English skills lead to significant wage premiums. While the incorporation of cognitive skills narrows the black-white wage gap considerably, the effects of skills on the wages of blacks and whites are far from uniform. Despite using detailed controls for the quality of education, an extra year of schooling yields the highest wage premium for whites in all occupations. 4 Tables, 1 Figure, 18 References. Adapted from the source document. |
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Mitra, Aparna. "Cognitive Skills and Black-White Wages in the United States Labor Market." Journal of Socio-Economics 29,4 (2000): 389-401.
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