Intergenerational transmission of skills and differences in labor market outcomes for blacks and whites
Intergenerational transmission of skills and differences in labor market outcomes for blacks and whites
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黑人和白人的技能代际传递和劳动力市场结果的差异
DOI：
10.1108/s0147-912120160000043015
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2016
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Tsunao Okumura and Emiko Usui
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Yutaka Arimoto;Kentaro Nakajima and Tetsuji Okazaki;Tsunao Okumura and Emiko Usui
本文从理论和实证两个方面考察了美国黑人和白人在职业技能代际传递及其对儿子收入的影响方面的差异。父子技能相关性通过父亲的技能向量和儿子的技能向量之间的相关系数（或角度的余弦）来测量。技能矢量包括来自职业头衔词典（DOT）的个人职业特征。根据美国全国青年纵向调查（NLSY 79）的数据，白色儿子在需要与父亲相似技能的职业中获得更高的工资，而黑人儿子在这种情况下会遭受工资损失。种族工资差距的很大一部分可以用父子技能相关性来解释。然而，在工资分配的低端仍然存在着一个无法解释的重大种族工资差距。
This paper investigates, theoretically and empirically, differences between blacks and whites in the United States concerning the intergenerational transmission of occupational skills and the effects on sons’ earnings. The father–son skill correlation is measured by the correlation coefficient (or cosine of the angle) between the father’s skill vector and the son’s skill vector. The skill vector comprises an individual’s occupational characteristics from the Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT). According to data from the U.S. National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79), white sons earn higher wages in occupations that require skills similar to those of their fathers, whereas black sons in such circumstances incur a wage loss. A large portion of the racial wage gap is explained by the father–son skill correlation. However, a significant unexplained racial wage gap remains at the lower tail of the wage distribution.