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Table 3 Coefficient estimates describing Δin (usual weekly earnings), CPS-MORG, 1980–2009 and sub-periods 1980–1992, 1993–2009, all workers, based on longitudinal data*

From: Wage discrimination over the business cycle

 

Nonhispanic Whites, females relative to males

Nonblack Hispanics (relative to Nonhispanic Whites)

Blacks (relative to Nonhispanic Whites)

  

1980-2009

 

ΔU

0.1482

-0.0573

-0.0267

 

(0.0780)

(0.0653)

(0.0650)

M × ΔU

-0.3856

-0.2855

0.1373

 

(0.0854)

(0.1447)

(0.1361)

Adj. R2

0.286

0.281

0.280

N

1,375,689

1,493,368

1,524,422

  

1980-1992

 

ΔU

0.0196

-0.0992

-0.0736

 

(0.0850)

(0.0730)

(0.0719)

M × ΔU

-0.1796

-0.5640

0.2733

 

(0.0887)

(0.1967)

(0.1490)

Adj. R2

0.351

0.349

0.347

N

641,724

679,107

708,584

  

1993-2009

 

ΔU

0.2837

-0.0038

0.0256

 

(0.1349)

(0.1114)

(0.1122)

M × ΔU

-0.5620

-0.2000

0.0456

 

(0.1372)

(0.1816)

(0.2051)

Adj. R2

0.252

0.248

0.246

N

733,965

814,261

815,838

  1. *Also includes potential experience and current and past year’s usual weekly hours, and year fixed effects.