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Blacks Earn Less in US not because they're Black but because they're Dumb
On Sep 1, 10:23 pm, RichAsianKid wrote:
The Myth of Racial Discrimination in Pay in the United States by Satoshi Kanazawa Read this! http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/MES/pdf/MDE2005.pdf Abstract: The analyses of the General Social Survey data from 1974 to 2000 replicate earlier findings from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth that racial disparity in earnings disappears once cognitive ability is controlled for. The results are robust across many alternative specifications, and further show that blacks receive significantly greater returns to their cognitive ability than nonblacks. The trend data show that there was no sign of racial discrimination in the United States as early as 1970s. The analyses call into question the necessity of and justification for preferential treatment of ethnic minorities. Intro and conclusion: Intro: It is commonplace to observe that there is widespread 'racial discrimination' in the United States. Every introductory sociology textbook has a chapter on 'racial inequality,' the main point of which is to advance the view that 'racial discrimination' by white Americans is largely responsible for the lower socioeconomic status of black Americans. Economists (Simister, 2000) and sociologists (Cancio et al., 1996) commonly assume that the difference in earnings between whites and blacks, after controlling for human capital factors such as education, work experience and job tenure, necessarily reflects 'discrimination,' where employers pay equally qualified whites and blacks performing the same job differently or the existence of a dual (Doeringer and Piore, 1971) or segmented (Bonacich, 1972) labor market where blacks disproportionately occupy less desirable, low-paying jobs. Wilson (1978) was the first to argue that race per se did not affect social and economic outcomes of Americans. There have since been several studies with the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data, all of which show that Wilson was presciently correct (O'Neill, 1990; Herrnstein and Murray, 1994, Chapter 14; Farkas and Vicknair, 1996; Farkas et al., 1997), although the ultimate cause of racial disparity in earnings does not appear to be social class, as Wilson (1978) argued, but is instead cognitive abilities. All of these studies show that, while blacks earn significantly less than whites in the United States, the race difference in earnings disappears entirely once their cognitive abilities are controlled for. In this brief note, I replicate these earlier findings from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth with data from the General Social Surveys (GSS). My results, robust across various statistical specifications, show that there is no evidence for racial discrimination in pay in the United States, and race instead is a proxy measure for cognitive ability. I also present trend data to demonstrate that there does not appear to have been any sign of racial discrimination in pay in the United States in the last 30 years. Conclusion: The results presented in Tables 1-9 collectively demonstrate that race is not so much a measure of skin color as an indicator of cognitive ability. Various specifications employed in the analyses above increase the robustness of the statistical findings and my confidence in the substantive conclusion. In every table, the significantly positive effect of verbal IQ on income replaces the similarly significantly negative effect of race. When race is not a significant predictor of income to begin with, as when job tenure and work experience are controlled (Table 3) or in the 1980s (Table 8), then verbal IQ is not a significant predictor either. My analyses suggest that there has never been any evidence of widespread racial discrimination in pay in the United States in the last 30 years.5 Affirmative action, and other preferential treatment of ethnic minorities in the United States, are often justified on the ground of countering and reversing past and present discrimination against them. If there has never been any racial discrimination in the past or present to begin with, it appears that such government policies lose much of their justification for existence. http://www.amren.com/ American Renaissance ted |
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