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Title: Reservation Wages: An Analysis of the Effects of Reservations on Employment of American Indian Men
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Gitter, Robert J. Reagan, Patricia Benton |
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Reservation Wages: An Analysis of the Effects of Reservations on Employment of American Indian Men American Economic Review 92,4 (September 2002): 1160-1168. Also: http://www.aeaweb.org/articles.php?doi=10.1257/00028280260344696 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: American Economic Association Keyword(s): Employment; Ethnic Differences; Ethnic Studies; Wages, Men; Wages, Reservation Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. American Indians living on reservations have experienced numerous economic problems, however no previous research has examined the effects of reservations on individual employment rates, controlling for other observable attributes. In this paper, the authors explore the effects of reservations on employment using a sample of young males from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79). They compare outcomes for Indians with those of a nationally representative cross section of the same birth cohort controlling for (1) contemporaneous proximity to a reservation and (2) whether the respondent lived at age 14 in a country with a reservation. Results show that American Indian males fare worse than other men in the labor market. The authors' data suggest that controlling for other factors, including local labor-market conditions, proximity to a reservation reduces the probability of employment among Indian men by 11 percentage points. Having lived in a country with a reservation at age 14 reduces the probability of employment among Indian men by 5-10 percentage points. In addition, neither measure of proximity to a reservation reduces employment of other groups. |
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Gitter, Robert J. and Patricia Benton Reagan. "Reservation Wages: An Analysis of the Effects of Reservations on Employment of American Indian Men." American Economic Review 92,4 (September 2002): 1160-1168.
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