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10 - African American Cultural Diversity

Social Identity, Ethnicity, and Nativity

from Part III - African American Income and Wealth, 1965–Present

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2023

Patrick L. Mason
Patrick L. Mason
Affiliation:
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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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.

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immigrantLatinxCaribbean-EnglishCaribbean-SpanishHaitiAfricamixed-racewage differentialemployment differential
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The Economics of Structural Racism
Stratification Economics and US Labor Markets
 , pp. 258 - 282
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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