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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Nov 3.
Published in final edited form as: Soc Forces. 2008 Mar;86(3):1217–1244. doi: 10.1353/sof.0.0008
Married Women

Model 1: Model 2: Model 3: Original O-E Earnings
Ratio, with Controls
Proportion Employed Proportion Working
Full-Time, Full-Year
N




Observed-
Expected
Ratio:
Observed-
Expected
Ratio:
Observed-
Expected
Ratio:
Proportion Difference
from
Whites
Proportion Difference
from
Whites
White Only 1.00 0.79 0.00 0.44 0.00 28587
Chinese 1.16 *** 1.16 *** 1.16 *** 1.15 *** 0.80 0.02 0.49 0.05 2182
Asian Indian 1.22 *** 1.15 *** 1.22 *** 1.14 *** 0.74 -0.05 0.42 -0.02 464
Korean 1.29 *** 1.17 *** 1.25 *** 1.20 *** 0.76 -0.03 0.41 -0.03 338
Japanese 1.10 *** 1.11 *** 1.10 *** 1.11 *** 0.85 0.06 0.53 0.09 2993
Cuban 1.15 *** 1.12 *** 1.12 *** 1.12 *** 0.80 0.02 0.47 0.04 1677
Other, multi-eth Asian 1.19 *** 1.19 *** 1.17 *** 1.20 *** 0.81 0.03 0.52 0.08 624
Asian-white 1.15 *** 1.13 *** 1.12 *** 1.15 *** 0.80 0.02 0.46 0.03 1917
Black-Asian 1.20 *** 1.12 * 1.09 1.10 0.81 0.02 0.48 0.04 132
Filipino 1.19 *** 1.14 *** 1.13 *** 1.17 *** 0.82 0.03 0.53 0.09 1676
Other 1.10 *** 1.09 *** 1.08 *** 1.09 *** 0.76 -0.03 0.42 -0.01 8511
Vietnamese Only 1.16 * 1.03 1.06 1.08 0.68 -0.10 0.36 -0.08 125
Black-white 1.11 *** 1.10 *** 1.07 *** 1.10 *** 0.80 0.01 0.43 0.00 828
Native Am.-white 1.02 * 1.01 1.00 1.02 * 0.73 -0.06 0.38 -0.05 7984
Other Hispanic 1.08 *** 1.07 *** 1.05 *** 1.08 *** 0.74 -0.05 0.40 -0.04 20248
Puerto Rican 1.12 *** 1.11 *** 1.09 *** 1.12 *** 0.70 -0.08 0.39 -0.04 16427
Mexican 1.09 *** 1.07 *** 1.05 *** 1.08 *** 0.75 -0.04 0.41 -0.03 46957
Black 1.16 *** 1.13 *** 1.11 *** 1.14 *** 0.81 0.02 0.50 0.06 24197
Native American 1.07 *** 1.06 *** 1.05 *** 1.08 *** 0.73 -0.06 0.39 -0.05 14022

Model 1: Uses hourly wages as the dependent variable, includes part-time and part-year workers.

Model 2: Takes out the self-employed.

Model 3: Takes out workers with earnings below $6500 or above $160,000.

*

p < .1

**

p < .05

***

p < .01