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，考察了已有文献的结论对样本选择和收入函数设定的敏感性，并量化了迁移、教育选择、教育质量和社会活动对非裔美国人收入绝对和相对水平的贡献。
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.