Labour Market Discrimination-Economics Online
Extension idea:
- How has racial discrimination varied over time in the US?
(how hourly wages change for each person over time)
Data set: NLSY79
- Method: random effect OLS
- Classify the years into different cohorts
- Only use the data for male (excluding all females)
- Only use the data for Blacks and Whites (excluding all other races)
- Standardize the AFQT scores
- Reshape the data to make one observation represents one individual
(use the command: keep hwage person year afqt race gender
reshape wide hwage, i(person) j(year)
order person gender race afqt hwage* )
Identify: How many individuals? (black/white) (tabulate)
What are their characteristics?
Histogram afqt if gender==1, by(race) (comment on this)
How do their wage change over time?)
- Dependent variables: log of hourly wage
- Independent variables: black (dummy), AFQT, age…
- How is racial discrimination in the labor market differs between men and women in the U.S.?
Data set: NLSY79
- Method: random effect OLS
- Only use the data for Blacks and Whites (excluding all other races)
- Reshape the data to make one observation represents one individual
keep hwage person year afqt race gender
reshape wide hwage, i(person) j(year)
order person gender race afqt hwage* )
- Dependent variables: log of hourly wage
- Independent variables: black (dummy), female (dummy), AFQT, age…
