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April 1982

Usual weekly earnings: another look at intergroup differences and basic trends

Earl Mellor, George D. Stamas

Recent years of inflation and recession held real earnings of wage and salary workers below 1973 levels; the pay gap between black and white full-time employees narrowed after 1967, but the wide earnings disparity by sex remains.

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