RiverDad
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Re: Andre Carson: Tea party wants blacks 'hanging on a tree' Read more: http://www.p
The part that is cut off from reality. You write "The system is biased in favor of whites" but we see little evidence of that. When cognitive skills are controlled for there is no wage inequality. On the other hand, when we look at the economic returns to education, meaning how much of an income boost does each additional year of education earn the student, we see this:
If the system was biased in favor of whites then we would expect to see whites getting a bigger boost for every additional year of schooling. Instead we see the opposite. Why is that? It's because employers are incentivized to hire minorities and they reward those minority employees who earn degrees with higher incomes than those earned by whites with the same level of schooling.
Which part are you struggling with?
The part that is cut off from reality. You write "The system is biased in favor of whites" but we see little evidence of that. When cognitive skills are controlled for there is no wage inequality. On the other hand, when we look at the economic returns to education, meaning how much of an income boost does each additional year of education earn the student, we see this:
If the system was biased in favor of whites then we would expect to see whites getting a bigger boost for every additional year of schooling. Instead we see the opposite. Why is that? It's because employers are incentivized to hire minorities and they reward those minority employees who earn degrees with higher incomes than those earned by whites with the same level of schooling.