Accounting for Racial Differences in Marriage and Employment

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Seitz, Shannon
• 署名单位: Boston College; Queens University - Canada
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/599281
• 发表日期: 2009
• 页码: 385-437
• 关键词: markets; men; INEQUALITY; fertility; AMERICA; TRENDS; rates; MODEL

摘要

What can account for the differences in marriage and employment decisions across blacks and whites? To answer this question, I develop a dynamic, equilibrium model of marriage. Two explanations for the racial differences in behavior are considered: differences in population supplies and wages. Black-white differences in population supplies explain one-fifth of the difference in marriage rates and between one-fifth and one-third of the differences in employment rates across race. Removing the racial gap in wages eliminates the differences in employment but increases the differences in marriage rates.