Regressions explaining the wage rates of white males, black males white females are used to analyze the white-black wage differential men and the male-female wage differential among whites. A distin drawn between reduced form and structural wage equations, an are estimated. They are shown to have very different implication analyzing the white-black and male-female wage differentials. Wh two sets of estimates are synthesized, they jointly imply that 70 per the overall race differential and 100 percent of the overall sex diff are ultimately attributable to discrimination of various sorts.

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