Sentences with phrase «white wage gaps»
Differences in repayment rates may be partly attributable to growing black - white wage gaps, as well as to differences in graduate enrollment (which allows students to defer loan payments).
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The Economic Policy Institute reports, «the black - white wage gaps are larger today than they were in 1979.»
I found his piece on the economic history of the black / white wage gap to be an essential read.
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Asian women face the smallest wage gap — they earn 87 % of what white men earn, resulting in a pay gap of 13 %.
In separate studies, Derek Neal and William Johnson in 1996 and June O'Neill in 1990 found that most of the wage gap between black and white adults disappears once the data are adjusted to reflect their scores on the Armed Forces Qualifying Test; in other words, those adults with similar scores earned similar wages.
Ten years later, they were 24 - 31, and you could drop a test score in a wage equation and knock out most of the black / white hourly earnings gap.
When differences in educational backgrounds, years of experience, and employment characteristics are taken into account, the wage gap between African American and white female, full - time teachers is reduced to roughly 93 cents on the dollar.