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Does the Wage Gap Flip for Black Women Versus Black Men?
The wage gap is a very difficult statistic because it's a highly selected statistic. The women who are in the work place, and in certain types of work places, are going to be selected either on the basis of personal characteristics or the characteristics of their spouses. So i think that deep in that calculation are some of the nation's largest ills. When i read non economists on wage caps, i see the word intersectionality very often,. at the notion that through some non linear effect created by combining different types of discrimination.