From Dark to Light: Skin Color and Wages Among African-Americans

Goldsmith, Arthur H.; Hamilton, Darrick; Darity, William A.

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“…Hersch (2006) finds consistent evidence that darker skin tone is associated with lower educational attainment among African Americans, although this study shows limited evidence that lighter skin color is associated with higher wages. Goldsmith, Hamilton, andDarity (2006, 2007) find support for a wage advantage to light skin color among African American males. Law,Medicine,and Ethics (vol.…”

Section: Background On Skin Colormentioning

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Profiling the New Immigrant Worker: The Effects of Skin Color and Height

Hersch

2008

Journal of Labor Economics

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JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.. Using data from the New Immigrant Survey 2003, this article shows that skin color and height affect wages among new lawful immigrants to the United States, controlling for education, English language proficiency, occupation in source country, family background, ethnicity, race, and country of birth. Immigrants with the lightest skin color earn on average 17% more than comparable immigrants with the darkest skin color. Taller immigrants have higher wages, but weight does not affect wages. Controls for extensive current labor market characteristics that may be influenced by discrimination do not eliminate the negative effect of darker skin color on wages.

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Section: Background On Skin Colormentioning

confidence: 99%

Profiling the New Immigrant Worker: The Effects of Skin Color and Height

Hersch

2008

Journal of Labor Economics

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“…Lin et al (2016) show that a relative worsening of Black women's marriage market conditions helps explain changes in the racial gap in female obesity. Black women's price in marriage may be lower (see Grossbard et al 2014), possibly due to discrimination against dark skin (Goldsmith et al 2007). It is also possible that on average Black women pay the price of marriage to men (Cherry 1998).…”

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Marriage markets as explanation for why heavier people work more hours

Grossbard

Mukhopadhyay

2017

IZA J Labor Econ

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Is BMI related to hours of work through marriage market mechanisms? We empirically explore this issue using data from the NLSY79 and NLSY97 and a number of estimation strategies (including OLS, IV, and sibling FE). Our IV estimates (with same-sex sibling's BMI as an instrument and a large set of controls including wage) suggest that a one-unit increase in BMI leads to an almost 2% increase in White married women's hours of work. However, BMI is not associated with hours of work of married men. We also find that a one-unit increase in BMI leads to a 1.4% increase in White single women's hours of work, suggesting that single women may expect future in-marriage transfers that vary by body weight. We show that the positive association between BMI and hours of work of White single women increases with self-assessed probability of future marriage and varies with expected cumulative spousal income. Comparisons between the association between BMI and hours of work for White and Black married women suggest a possible racial gap in intra-marriage transfers from husbands to wives.

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“…There is strong evidence of employment discrimination both in terms of job access and wages for darker-skinned black men, 59 and compelling evidence is emerging of marital discrimination against darker-skinned black women. Joni Hersch's study using the New Immigrant Survey finds that shorter and darker-skinned immigrants are subjected to greater levels of discrimination in the labor market.…”

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Stratification Economics: Context Versus Culture and the Reparations Controversy

2009

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From Dark to Light: Skin Color and Wages Among African-Americans

Cited by 182 publications

References 106 publications

Profiling the New Immigrant Worker: The Effects of Skin Color and Height

Profiling the New Immigrant Worker: The Effects of Skin Color and Height

Marriage markets as explanation for why heavier people work more hours

Stratification Economics: Context Versus Culture and the Reparations Controversy

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