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Table 1 Black-white gaps in log weekly wage

From: The role of location in evaluating racial wage disparity

 

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

Age

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Education

No

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Location (MSA)

No

Yes

No

Yes

No

Location (Region)

No

No

No

No

Yes

1940

-0.741

-0.662

-0.584

-0.495

-0.478

 

(0.0119)

(0.0081)

(0.0093)

(0.0086)

(0.0114)

1950

-0.511

-0.485

-0.400

-0.365

-0.348

 

(0.0139)

(0.0108)

(0.0110)

(0.0125)

(0.0126)

1960

-0.510

-0.489

-0.372

-0.366

-0.332

 

(0.0070)

(0.0063)

(0.0041)

(0.0050)

(0.0064)

1970

-0.447

-0.448

-0.315

-0.329

-0.281

 

(0.0138)

(0.0054)

(0.0057)

(0.0047)

(0.0062)

1980

-0.308

-0.332

-0.238

-0.256

-0.218

 

(0.0125)

(0.0031)

(0.0049)

(0.0022)

(0.0042)

1990

-0.281

-0.323

-0.212

-0.248

-0.193

 

(0.0054)

(0.0027)

(0.0054)

(0.0022)

(0.0040)

2000

-0.259

-0.310

-0.197

-0.236

-0.184

 

(0.0070)

(0.0027)

(0.0049)

(0.0022)

(0.0036)

  1. Source: Authors’ calculations, 1940 to 2000 I-PUMS. Dependent variable is the logarithm of weekly earnings. See the data appendix for details.