Table 1.
Share of jobs and share of risk, by race
Summary statistics | African Americans | Hispanics |
Share of exposure | 0.174 (0.006) | 0.150 (0.006) |
Share of jobs | 0.108 (0.004) | 0.098 (0.006) |
Disparity | 0.068 (0.008) | 0.052 (0.009) |
Facilities for which ratio of job share to exposure share | ||
<0.5 | 312 | 442 |
>2 | 40 | 40 |
Total number of facilities | 712 | 712 |
The upper rows report facility means for the shares of toxic exposure and shares of jobs for African Americans and Hispanics and the disparity between exposure and jobs. Standard errors in parentheses. The lower rows report the number of facilities for which the ratio of job share to exposure share is less than 0.5 (i.e., relatively few jobs come at the expense of high exposure) or more than 2 (i.e., relatively many jobs come with high exposure).