Oh Byeongdon, Freeman Daniel Mackin, Shifrer Dara
University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Portland State University, Portland, OR, USA.
Sociol Race Ethn (Thousand Oaks). 2023 Jul;9(3):342-360. doi: 10.1177/23326492221141650. Epub 2022 Dec 21.
Despite the rapid expansion of higher education, many young adults still enter the labor market without a college education. However, little research has focused on racial/ethnic earnings disadvantages faced by non-college-educated youth. We analyze the restricted-use data from the High School Longitudinal Study of 2009 to examine racial/ethnic earnings disparities among non-college-educated young men and women in their early 20s as of 2016, accounting for differences in premarket factors and occupation with an extensive set of controls. Results suggest striking earnings disadvantages for Black men relative to white, Latinx, and Asian men. Compared to white men, Latinx and Asian men do not earn significantly less, yet their earnings likely differ substantially by ethnic origin. While racial/ethnic earnings gaps are less prominent among women than men, women of all racial/ethnic groups have earnings disadvantages compared to white men. The results call for future studies into the heterogeneity within racial/ethnic groups and the intersectionality of race/ethnicity and gender among non-college-educated young adults.
尽管高等教育迅速扩张，但许多年轻人进入劳动力市场时仍未接受过大学教育。然而，很少有研究关注未受过大学教育的年轻人所面临的种族/族裔收入劣势。我们分析了2009年高中纵向研究的受限使用数据，以考察截至2016年20岁出头的未受过大学教育的年轻男性和女性之间的种族/族裔收入差距，并通过一系列广泛的控制变量来考虑市场前期因素和职业差异。结果表明，相对于白人、拉丁裔和亚裔男性，黑人男性存在显著的收入劣势。与白人男性相比，拉丁裔和亚裔男性的收入并没有显著更低，但他们的收入可能因族裔来源而有很大差异。虽然种族/族裔收入差距在女性中不如男性中那么突出，但所有种族/族裔群体的女性与白人男性相比都存在收入劣势。研究结果呼吁未来对未受过大学教育的年轻人中的种族/族裔群体内部异质性以及种族/族裔与性别的交叉性进行研究。
