Carrington, William J.; McCue, Kristin; Pierce, Brooks - In: Industrial and Labor Relations Review 49 (1996) 3, pp. 456-471
This paper assesses the relative contribution of the public and private sectors, through their employment and wages, to the black/white wage convergence that occurred in the U.S. economy over the 1963-92 period. Applying standard decomposition methods to Current Population Survey data, the...