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Meritocracy in America: An Examination of Wages Within and Across Occupations / John Cawley, James Heckman, Edward Vytlacil.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cawley, John.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w6446.
- NBER working paper series no. w6446
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social classes--United States.
- Social classes.
- Wages--Econometric models.
- Wages.
- Wages--Social aspects--United States--Econometric models.
- Wages--United States--Econometric models.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Meritocracy in America
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 1998.
- Cambridge, MA : National Bureau of Economic Research, 1998.
- Summary:
- In The Bell Curve, Herrnstein and Murray argue that the U.S. economy is a meritocracy in which differences in wages (including differences across race and gender) are explained by differences in cognitive ability. In this paper we test their claim for wages conditional on occupation using a simultaneous model of occupation choice and wage determination. Our results contradict Herrnstein and Murray's claim that the U.S. labor market operates only on meritocratic principles.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- March 1998.
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