Minority groups in the United States promoted affirmative action legislation in the 1960s during the civil rights movement to help ease the inequalities suffered in their economic history. Many labor economists have sought since this time to study the effects of race, gender, and the effect of income – how it has changed and if the gap has closed. Existing literature uses many different econometric models to show how the effects of race, gender, age, occupation, educational attainment, and geographic location on an individual comparative basis. This paper will examine the effects of all of these variables jointly using an ordinary least squares (OLS) regression analysis. [excerpt]
Krisch, David H.
"A Current Microeconometric Assessment of the Racial Wage Gap in the United States,"
Gettysburg Economic Review: Vol. 2
, Article 6.
Available at: http://cupola.gettysburg.edu/ger/vol2/iss1/6