abstract: 'Despite efforts to improve the labor market situation of African

  Americans, the racial earnings gap has endured in the United States.

  Most prior studies on racial inequality have considered its

  cross-sectional or period patterns. This study adopts a demographic

  perspective to examine the evolution of earnings trajectories among

  white and black men across cohorts in the United States. Using more than

  40 years of longitudinal earnings records from the U.S. Social Security

  Administration matched to the Survey of Income and Program

  Participation, our analyses reveal that the cohort trends in the racial

  earnings gap follow quite different patterns by education. Race

  continues to be a salient dimension of economic inequality over the life

  course and across cohorts, particularly at the top and the bottom of the

  educational distribution. Although the narrowing of the racial gap among

  high school graduates is in itself a positive development, it

  unfortunately derives primarily from the deteriorating economic position

  for whites without a college degree rather than an improvement in

  economic standing of their black counterparts.'
affiliation: 'Cheng, S (Corresponding Author), NYU, Dept Sociol, 295 Lafayette St,4th
  Floor, New York, NY 10012 USA.

  Cheng, Siwei, NYU, Dept Sociol, 295 Lafayette St,4th Floor, New York, NY 10012 USA.

  Tamborini, Christopher R., US Social Secur Adm, Off Res Evaluat \& Stat, Washington,
  DC USA.

  Tamborini, Christopher R., Univ Maryland, Maryland Populat Res Ctr, 2105 Morrill
  Hall, College Pk, MD 20742 USA.

  Kim, ChangHwan, Univ Kansas, Dept Sociol, 1415 Jayhawk Blvd, Lawrence, KS 66045
  USA.

  Sakamoto, Arthur, Texas A\&M Univ, Dept Sociol, 4351 TAMU, College Stn, TX 77843
  USA.'
author: Cheng, Siwei and Tamborini, Christopher R. and Kim, ChangHwan and Sakamoto,
  Arthur
author-email: siwei.cheng@nyu.edu
author_list:
- family: Cheng
  given: Siwei
- family: Tamborini
  given: Christopher R.
- family: Kim
  given: ChangHwan
- family: Sakamoto
  given: Arthur
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1007/s13524-019-00827-w
earlyaccessdate: DEC 2019
eissn: 1533-7790
files: []
issn: 0070-3370
journal: DEMOGRAPHY
keywords: 'Life course; Cohort trends; Racial and ethnic inequalities; Labor

  market; Administrative data'
keywords-plus: 'CURRENT POPULATION SURVEY; WAGE INEQUALITY; UNITED-STATES; INCOME

  INEQUALITY; RACIAL-INEQUALITY; WOMENS EMPLOYMENT; MEASUREMENT ERROR;

  AFRICAN-AMERICAN; MATCH BIAS; LABOR'
language: English
month: DEC
number: '6'
number-of-cited-references: '94'
orcid-numbers: Tamborini, Christopher/0000-0002-8198-3509
pages: 2253-2277
papis_id: 69a952c0dc4a37aff116b099980fafa0
ref: Cheng2019educationalvariation
times-cited: '19'
title: 'Educational Variations in Cohort Trends in the Black-White Earnings Gap Among
  Men: Evidence From Administrative Earnings Data'
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000500197800001
usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
usage-count-since-2013: '18'
volume: '56'
web-of-science-categories: Demography
year: '2019'