Retreive the percent by which hourly wages of workers without a high school diploma (or equivalent) are less than wages of otherwise equivalent workers who have graduated from high school

A regression-based non-high school wage penalty of 21.8 percent means that on average workers without a high school diploma are paid 21.8 percent less per hour than workers with a high school diploma, all else held equal (controlling for gender, race and ethnicity, education, experience, and geographic location).

get_non_high_school_wage_penalty(by = NULL)

Arguments

by	NULL or g for a parition by gender

Value

tbl_df with data filtered by the selected criteria.

References

Economic Policy Institute Data Library

Examples

if (FALSE) {
get_non_high_school_wage_penalty()

get_non_high_school_wage_penalty("g")
}