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The Relative Earnings of Young Mexican, Black, and White Women

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Heather Antecol (Claremont McKenna College)
Kelly Bedard (UC - Santa Barbara)

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Using the NLSY, we find that young Mexican women earn 9% less than young White women while young Black women earn 15% less than young White women. Although young Mexican women earn less than young White women, they do surprisingly well compared to young Black women. We show that it is crucially important to account for actual labor market experience. We further show that low labor force attachment is the most important determinant of the Black- White wage differential for young women while education is the most important explanation for the Mexican-White wage gap for young women.

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Keywords: discrimination; women;

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J1 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics
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  1. Heather Antecol & Kelly Bedard, 2001. "The Racial Wage Gap: The Importance of Labor Force Attachment Differences Across Black, Mexican and White Men," Claremont Colleges Working Papers 2001-35, Claremont Colleges. [Downloadable!]
  2. Luis Locay & Tracy Regan & Arthur M. Diamond Jr., 2008. "The Effects of Spanish-Language Background on Completed Schooling and Aptitude Test Scores," Working Papers 0909, University of Miami, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]
  3. Tracy Regan & Ronald Oaxaca, 2009. "Work experience as a source of specification error in earnings models: implications for gender wage decompositions," Journal of Population Economics, Springer, vol. 22(2), pages 463-499, April. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  4. Heather Antecol & Kelly Bedard, 2007. "Does single parenthood increase the probability of teenage promiscuity, substance use, and crime?," Journal of Population Economics, Springer, vol. 20(1), pages 55-71, February. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  5. Luis Locay & Tracy L. Regan & Arthur M. Diamond, Jr., . "The Effects of Spanish-Language Background on Completed Schooling and Aptitude Test Scores," Working Papers 0710, University of Miami, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]
  6. Heather Antecol & Kelly Bedard, 2002. "The Racial Wage Gap: The Importance of Labor Force Attachment Differences," University of California at Santa Barbara, Economics Working Paper Series 7-02, Department of Economics, UC Santa Barbara. [Downloadable!]
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