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William Rodgers

Professor of Public Policy, Rutgers University
Verified email at ejb.rutgers.edu
Cited by 1757

Black-white wage gaps expand with rising wage inequality

V Wilson, WM Rodgers III - 2016 - policycommons.net
What this report finds: Black-white wage gaps are larger today than they were in 1979, but
the increase has not occurred along a straight line. During the early 1980s, rising …

What does the AFQT really measure: Race, wages, schooling and the AFQT score

WM Rodgers III, WE Spriggs - The Review of Black Political …, 1996 - journals.sagepub.com
Recent literature on the black-white wage gap shows that during the 1980s, the unadjusted
gap expanded. 1 To document this" between-group" expansion, most studies use micro data …

How does gender play a role in the earnings gap-an update

S Boraas, WM Rodgers III - Monthly Lab. Rev., 2003 - HeinOnline
Employment and Unemployment Statistics, Bureau of Labor Statistics. William M. Rodgers III
Is the Frances L. and Edwin L. Cummings associate professor of economics and director of …

The disparate labor market impacts of monetary policy

SB Carpenter, WM Rodgers III - Journal of Policy Analysis and …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Employing two widely used approaches to identify the effects of monetary policy, this paper
explores the differential impact of policy on the labor market outcomes of teenagers, …

[BOOK][B] Handbook on the Economics of Discrimination

WM Rodgers - 2009 - books.google.com
The papers contained in the first part of the book are particularly valuable as a primer for
researchers interested in economic discrimination. On this basis alone this book is …

Area economic conditions and the labor market outcomes of young men in the 1990s expansion

RB Freeman, WM Rodgers III - 1999 - nber.org
The current expansion has shattered the length of the previous longest peace-time boom
and brought unemployment rates below four percent in 44 percent of metropolitan areas. We …

[HTML][HTML] Race in the labor market: The role of equal employment opportunity and other policies

WM Rodgers - RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the …, 2019 - rsfjournal.org
Fifty years have passed since the release of the Kerner Commission’s findings, conclusions,
and policy recommendations. This article first reviews recent trend and cross-section …

Post 9-11 US Muslim labor market outcomes

F Rabby, WM Rodgers - Atlantic Economic Journal, 2011 - Springer
Using a difference-in-differences framework and micro data from the Current Population
Survey-Merged Outgoing Rotation Group Files (1999 to 2004), this paper estimates the impact …

The effect of federal contractor status on racial differences in establishment-level employment shares: 1979-1992

WM Rodgers, WE Spriggs - The American Economic Review, 1996 - JSTOR
Research by Joleen Kirschenman and Kathyn Neckerman (1991), Margery Turner et al.(1991),
and Philip Moss and Chris Tilly (1993) finds that employers' treatment of African-…

AREA ECONOMIC CONDITIONS AND THE LABOR-MARKET MEN IN OUTCOMES OF Young Men in THE 1990S EXPANSION

RB Freeman, WM RODGERS III - Prosperity for all?: The …, 2000 - books.google.com
The The 1990s economic boom has made the American job market the envy of the world.
The proportion of the adult population that is employed has increased to the highest level in …