Race Discrimination
Studies about the gender gap have found that:
- In 1993, black males earned 73% as much as their white counterparts.
- Hispanic males earned 62% as much as white males. Hispanic females eared 73% as much as white females.
- Discrimination decreases the wages of black men by about 13%.
- Part of the earnings gap is due to productivity differences and part is due to racial discrimination, but in the 1990s, most disparities were due to differences in skills, not discrimination.