Racial inequality in the labor market, 1950-2017
Minimum Wages and Racial Inequality (with E. Derenoncourt):
- Published Paper, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2021, 136(1):169-228.
- Online Appendix, August 2020
- Presentation slides
- List of tables and figures
Data:
- Minimum Wage database (1950-1980): minimum wages by state, industry, month, year for men (.xlsx), and women (.xlsx)
- Bureau of Labor Statistics Industry Wage Reports: raw data 1960s (.html) and 1970-1979 (.html)
- Bureau of Labor Statistics Industry Wage Reports: digitized data for laundries, hotels, restaurants & nursing homes (.dta), schools (.dta), and hospitals (.dta) by gender, area, region & occupation, and average wages data for both industries covered in 1938 and 1967 (.dta)
- Complete raw data: March CPS, U.S. decennial censuses, BLS industry wage reports, CPI-U-RS series, minimum wage databases, etc. (.html)
Replication archive:
- Complete data, programs, tables, figures & tex files: working paper, presentation slides, main and appendix tables and figures, raw and output data & programs (.html)