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abstract: 'Public policy initiatives in the 1950s and 1960s, including Affirmative
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Action and Equal Employment Opportunity low, helped mitigate explicit
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discrimination in pay, and the expansion of higher education and
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training programs have advanced the employment fortunes of many American
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women. By the early 1980s, some scholars proclaimed near equity in pay
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between black and white women, particularly among young and highly
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skilled workers. More recent policy initiatives and labor market
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conditions have been arguably less progressive for black women''s
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employment and earnings: through the 1980s, 1990s, and the first half of
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the 2000s, the wage gap between black and white women widened
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considerably. Using data from the Current Population Survey Merged
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Outgoing Rotation Group (CPS-MORG), this article documents the racial
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wage gap among women in the United States from 1979 to 2005. We
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investigate how demographic and labor market conditions influence
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employment and wage inequality among black and white women over the
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period. Although shifts in labor supply influence the magnitude of the
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black-white wage gap among women, structural disadvantages faced by
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black women help explain the growth in the racial wage gap.'
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affiliation: 'Pettit, B (Corresponding Author), Univ Washington, Dept Sociol, Savery
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Hall,Box 353340, Seattle, WA 98195 USA.
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Pettit, Becky; Ewert, Stephanie, Univ Washington, Dept Sociol, Seattle, WA 98195
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USA.'
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author: Pettit, Becky and Ewert, Stephanie
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author-email: bpettit@u.washington.edu
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author_list:
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- family: Pettit
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given: Becky
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- family: Ewert
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given: Stephanie
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da: '2023-09-28'
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eissn: 1533-7790
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files: []
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issn: 0070-3370
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journal: DEMOGRAPHY
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keywords-plus: 'UNITED-STATES; LABOR-MARKET; OCCUPATIONAL SEGREGATION; HEADING
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HOUSEHOLDS; WHITE EARNINGS; RACE; INEQUALITY; GENDER; RATES;
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DISCRIMINATION'
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language: English
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month: AUG
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number: '3'
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number-of-cited-references: '57'
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pages: 469-492
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papis_id: 704c8f841c46ea0439e64907fb814199
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ref: Pettit2009employmentgains
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times-cited: '31'
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title: 'EMPLOYMENT GAINS AND WAGE DECLINES: THE EROSION OF BLACK WOMEN''S RELATIVE
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WAGES SINCE 1980'
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2023-10-01 08:15:07 +00:00
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type: article
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unique-id: WOS:000269925600003
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usage-count-last-180-days: '1'
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usage-count-since-2013: '19'
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volume: '46'
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web-of-science-categories: Demography
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year: '2009'
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