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Black–white male earnings and employment prospects in the 1970s and 1980s. (English) Zbl 0875.90159

Summary: Using a sample of around 80,000 whites and 2500 blacks, the paper highlights not just the economic disadvantage of blacks but also that this disadvantage worsened in the 1980s in Britain.

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91B82 Statistical methods; economic indices and measures
62P20 Applications of statistics to economics
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