Wage dispersion, returns to skill, and black-white wage differentials

DOI10.1016/0304-4076(95)01757-7MaRDI QIDQ2565043zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors David Card, Thomas Lemieux

Publication date 7 January 1997

Published in Journal of Econometrics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp01n583xt98n

zbMATH Keywords

ageblack-white wage differentialseducationone-dimensional skill modelreturns to skillsingle-index model of wagesskillunobserved abilitywage dispersion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to economics (62P20) Statistical methods; economic indices and measures (91B82)

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