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Peer reviewedMaxwell, Nan L. – Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 1994
Analysis of data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979-88 shows the main source of difference in black-white wages to be racial differences in quality, not quantity, of schooling. Closing the racial gap in basic skills learned could reduce wage differences by two-thirds. (SK)
Descriptors: Blacks, Educational Attainment, Educational Quality, Educational Supply
