Heather Boushey, "Unemployment, Pay, and Race", LBO#84

[Max Sawicky]

>     category       wage elasticity
>     -----------    ---------------
>     black men          -.25
>     black women        -.22
>     white men          -.20
>     white women        -.13
> 
> which clearly show a much greater aggregate elasticity than -.10.  Any
> thoughts on this?

As these things go, given different data sets
and models, among other things, .2 and .1 is
not such a big difference.


> . . .

MBS