Race & Gender Differences in the Experience of Earnings Inequality

Markus P. A. Schneider
Written By SCEPA

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This paper shows that there are important differences in the experience of inequality that imply that race and gender are not separable when it comes to understand- ing the distribution of earnings in the US.

The main findings are that only white men have experienced changes in within-group inequality that parallel the changes in inequality seen in the overall distribution. By contrast, the black population (male and female) has seen no notable increase in within-group in- equality.

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