ABSTRACT
The conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts covered in this book. The book investigates the effects that local labor market conditions have on the economic status of women and blacks relative to white men. Specifically, it investigates whether conventional estimates of wage and occupational discrimination vary across local labor markets and whether they are systematically related to changes in measurable attributes of those labor markets. The book discusses the conventional methods which economists employ to estimate empirically the existence and extent of differential labor market treatment (such as discrimination). As with the wage models, multivariate regression analysis was used to test whether changes in local labor market characteristics are related to changes in estimates of occupational segregation. The results of this analysis suggest that variations in changes in the index of dissimilarity are not explained very well by changes in measurable labor market characteristics.
