The role of location in evaluating racial wage disparity

IZA Journal of Labor Economics

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Black, Dan A ^a   Kolesnikova, Natalia ^b   Sanders, Seth G ^c   Taylor, Lowell J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Racial wage disparity; Theory of local labor markets; Wage regressions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84983242676     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21938997     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2193-8997-2-2     Document Type: Article

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