Median annual earnings of black males in the United States are 21% less than med
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Question
Median annual earnings of black males in the United States are 21% less than median annual earning of white males. White male workers are about 75% more likely to have a college degres than black male workers. What can you conclude from this information?
a, These two facts alone suggest than human capital differences play a role in the wage disparity between black and white males, but they do not disprove the presence of racial discrimination.
b. There two facts alone suggest that the difference in earnings between white males and black males in the U.S. is due entirely to differences in human capital.
In the united states, the median annual earnings of white females are 23% lower than the median annual earnings of white males. This proves that:
a. There is no discrimination against females; females just have less human capital than males.
b. You cannot draw either of these conclusions from this one statistic.
Explanation / Answer
ans (a) for first part as this question does not tells about any cuasality between these two factors and there might be other factors influencing these. ans (b) there might be many possibilities. we cant draw any conclusion.