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Gray, Rowena

University of California-Merced

Current S-Index

0.5

Sum of Dataset Indices for all datasets

Average Dataset Index per Dataset

0.3

Average Dataset Index per dataset

Total Datasets

2

Total datasets for this author

Average FAIR Score

51.9%

Average FAIR Score per dataset

Total Citations

0

Total citations to the author's datasets

Total Mentions

0

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Datasets

Replication data for: Tasks and Black-white Inequality over the Long Twentieth Century (Version: v0)

Replication package for "Tasks and Black-white Inequality over the Long Twentieth Century"

We present new evidence on the long-run evolution of occupational task content by race in the United States from 1900 to 2021. Black men began the transition to better-paid, cognitively intensive jobs at least a generation after white men and were instead concentrated in physically intensive jobs. Substantial convergence with white workers occurred only after 1960. Longitudinal data suggest that transitions to new task content were racially biased: Black men moved to jobs with lower rewarded task content than white men, conditional on initial task content, though these gaps decreased after World War II. Routine-intensive Black workers were less likely to move up into nonroutine analytic work compared with white workers in both historical and modern periods. The results suggest that task displacement shocks, such as the automation of routine manual work, widened Black-white inequality throughout the twentieth century, and these differential transitions remain a reason why labor market outcomes have not fully converged.

Authors

  • Gray, Rowena ;
  • O'Keefe, Siobhan ;
  • Quincy, Sarah ;
  • Ward, Zachary
0 Citations0 Mentions52% FAIR0.3 Dataset Index
10.3886/e2391072025

Replication data for: Tasks and Black-white Inequality over the Long Twentieth Century (Version: v1)

Replication package for "Tasks and Black-white Inequality over the Long Twentieth Century"

We present new evidence on the long-run evolution of occupational task content by race in the United States from 1900 to 2021. Black men began the transition to better-paid, cognitively intensive jobs at least a generation after white men and were instead concentrated in physically intensive jobs. Substantial convergence with white workers occurred only after 1960. Longitudinal data suggest that transitions to new task content were racially biased: Black men moved to jobs with lower rewarded task content than white men, conditional on initial task content, though these gaps decreased after World War II. Routine-intensive Black workers were less likely to move up into nonroutine analytic work compared with white workers in both historical and modern periods. The results suggest that task displacement shocks, such as the automation of routine manual work, widened Black-white inequality throughout the twentieth century, and these differential transitions remain a reason why labor market outcomes have not fully converged.

Authors

  • Gray, Rowena ;
  • O'Keefe, Siobhan ;
  • Quincy, Sarah ;
  • Ward, Zachary
0 Citations0 Mentions52% FAIR0.3 Dataset Index
10.3886/e239107v12025