IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/spr/blkpoe/v40y2013i1p31-37.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

An Analysis of Black–White Wage Differences in Nursing: Wage Gap or Wage Premium?

Author

Listed:
  • Richard McGregory

Abstract

This paper analyzes whether a black–white racial wage differential exists in the nursing labor market in the US. Despite claims of a nursing shortage, little examination of whether racial inequalities in the labor market might contribute to this purported shortage has occurred. Possible explanations for black–white differences in RN compensation include racial differences in: occupation; returns to skills; metropolitan residency; union membership. Regression analysis on wages for registered nurses (RNs) was conducted. Findings suggest a wage penalty for non-union black nurses compared to non-union white nurses as well as the absence of a racial wage differential for union nurses. Copyright Springer Science + Business Media, LLC 2013

Suggested Citation

  • Richard McGregory, 2013. "An Analysis of Black–White Wage Differences in Nursing: Wage Gap or Wage Premium?," The Review of Black Political Economy, Springer;National Economic Association, vol. 40(1), pages 31-37, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:blkpoe:v:40:y:2013:i:1:p:31-37
    DOI: 10.1007/s12114-011-9097-z
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1007/s12114-011-9097-z
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1007/s12114-011-9097-z?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Chunrong Ai & Edward C. Norton, 2008. "A semiparametric derivative estimator in log transformation models," Econometrics Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 11(3), pages 538-553, November.
    2. John Schmitt, 2008. "Unions and Upward Mobility for Women Workers," CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs 2008-31, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR).
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Gabriel Courey, 2020. "Gender and Racial Wage Differentials in Nonprofit Hospitals," LABOUR, CEIS, vol. 34(4), pages 373-398, December.
    2. Ameri, Mason & Ali, Mohammad & Schur, Lisa & Kruse, Douglas L., 2019. "Disability and the Unionized Workplace," IZA Discussion Papers 12258, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Devon Wilson & Donald Dantzler & Damian Evans & Richard McGregory, 2020. "Do Racial Disparities Exist in the Labor Market for Educators?," Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy, Springer, vol. 3(3), pages 195-204, September.
    2. Ciani Emanuele & Fisher Paul, 2019. "Dif-in-Dif Estimators of Multiplicative Treatment Effects," Journal of Econometric Methods, De Gruyter, vol. 8(1), pages 1-10, January.
    3. Ai, Chunrong & Li, Hongjun & Lin, Zhongjian & Meng, Meixia, 2015. "Estimation of panel data partly specified Tobit regression with fixed effects," Journal of Econometrics, Elsevier, vol. 188(2), pages 316-326.
    4. Marcu, Mircea & Knapp, Caprice & Madden, Vanessa & Brown, David & Wang, Hua & Sloyer, Phyllis, 2014. "Effects of an Integrated Care System on Children with Special Health Care Needs' Medicaid Expenditures," Working Papers 2014-8, University of Alberta, Department of Economics.
    5. Zhong, Rong (Irene), 2018. "Transparency and firm innovation," Journal of Accounting and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 66(1), pages 67-93.
    6. Shengwu Shang & Erik Nesson & Maoyong Fan, 2018. "Interaction Terms In Poisson And Log Linear Regression Models," Bulletin of Economic Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 70(1), pages 89-96, January.
    7. Richard McGregory & James Peoples, 2013. "Compensation of Foreign and Domestic Nurses in the US," Journal of Labor Research, Springer, vol. 34(2), pages 203-223, June.
    8. Aliasghar, Omid & Haar, Jarrod, 2023. "Open innovation: Are absorptive and desorptive capabilities complementary?," International Business Review, Elsevier, vol. 32(2).
    9. Borislava Mihaylova & Andrew Briggs & Anthony O'Hagan & Simon G. Thompson, 2011. "Review of statistical methods for analysing healthcare resources and costs," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 20(8), pages 897-916, August.
    10. Devon Wilson & Donald Dantzler & Damian Evans & Richard McGregory, 0. "Do Racial Disparities Exist in the Labor Market for Educators?," Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy, Springer, vol. 0, pages 1-10.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:blkpoe:v:40:y:2013:i:1:p:31-37. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.