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This paper investigates the relationship between labor market experiences and poverty levels for white, black, and Hispanic women in the US. The first part examines 1990 and 2002, two years with very similar national unemployment levels, and shows how the probability of being in poor changed...
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March CPS, the Census, and the ACS. Both Blacks and Hispanics have experienced a 20-25% earnings disadvantage relative to … whites since 1980. In terms of employment, the gap has been increasing for Blacks but decreasing for Hispanics. These … immigrants with natives reveals that while native Hispanics fare better than Blacks, many of the employment and earnings gains …
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Progress in narrowing black-white earnings differences has been far from continuous, with some of the apparent progress resulting from labor force withdrawal among lower-skilled African Americans. This paper builds on prior research and documents racial and ethnic differences in male earnings...
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At the height of the US civil rights movement in the mid-1960s, foreign-born persons were less than 1 % of the African-American population (Kent, Popul Bull, 62:4, 2007). Today, 16 % of America’s African diaspora workforce consists of first- or second-generation immigrants and 4 % is Hispanic....
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This paper explores disparities between White, Black, and Hispanic families using a measure of lifetime earnings developed by Jacobs et al. (2022) for the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF). Lifetime earnings are a particularly important measure of well-being, with relevance for wealth...
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