SESSION 1A: RACIAL INEQUALITY AND ECONOMIC PROGRESS
详细梳理了20世纪非裔美国人在劳动力市场中的经济进步来源，评估了迁移、教育选择、教育质量和社会活动对收入水平及相对收入的影响，并指出以往研究结论对样本选择和函数设定的敏感性。
This paper presents a detailed accounting of the sources of African-American economic progress in the labor market over the twentieth century. We examine the received literature and demonstrate the sensitivity of conclusions stated in it to choices of samples used to measure wages and to specifications of earnings functions. We present a quantitative assessment of the contributions of migration, schooling choices, schooling quality, and social activism to both absolute levels and relative levels of African-American earnings.