Illusory Wage Differentials: Comment
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-1984
ISSN
1944-7981
Publisher
American Economic Association
Language
en-US
Abstract
A recent article in this Review (1979) by Edward Lazear contends that black-white wage differentials have not narrowed as much as recent data may indicate. He suggests that the finding of a narrowing differential results in part from a mismeasurement of the real wage. Using a new measure, which supposedly takes account of differences in on-the-job training (OTJ), Lazear finds that whites enjoy a higher relative wage advantage than observed (1.47 as opposed to 1.37). This comment focuses on the new wage measure. When estimated with data from different time periods in the National Longitudinal Survey (NLS) sample, it is found to be unstable.
Recommended Citation
Keith N. Hylton,
Illusory Wage Differentials: Comment
,
in
74
The American Economic Review
1124
(1984).
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