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  • 9 - Individual Wage and Employment Disparity

  • from Part III - African American Income and Wealth, 1965–Present
  • Patrick L. Mason, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  • Book:
    The Economics of Structural Racism
    Published online:
    06 April 2023
    Print publication:
    13 April 2023, pp 231-257

  • Summary

    The labor market progress of African Americans men and women has been concentrated in the South: 1974–1989 was a period of weekly wage decline for males, especially African Americans. For men and women, racial wage and employment inequality increased consistently during 1974–1989 and 2008–2019.

  • 10 - African American Cultural Diversity

  • from Part III - African American Income and Wealth, 1965–Present
  • Patrick L. Mason, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  • Book:
    The Economics of Structural Racism
    Published online:
    06 April 2023
    Print publication:
    13 April 2023, pp 258-282

  • Summary

    Racial discrimination explains a large proportion of the racial differences in wages and employment. Native-born Non-Latinx African American men have a 20 percent weekly wage penalty and 9 percentage point employment penalty relative to native-born Non-Latinx White men; other groups of Black men have similar outcomes. Non-Latinx African American women have a 2 percent weekly wage penalty and 2 percentage point employment penalty relative to native-born Non-Latinx White women; other groups of Black women have similar outcomes.