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Tomaskovic-Devey, D., Thomas, M., & Johnson, K. (2005). Race and the accumulation of human capital across the career: A theoretical model and fixed-effects application. American Journal of Sociology, 111(1), 58-89.
Tomaskovic-Devey, Donald, Melvin Thomas, and Kecia Johnson. "Race and the accumulation of human capital across the career: A theoretical model and fixed-effects application." American Journal of Sociology 111.1 (2005): 58-89.
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Race and the accumulation of human capital across the career: A theoretical model and fixed-effects application.

ADVANCE: Organizational Change for Gender Equity in STEM Academic Professions AND Program Evaluation

Thomas, Tomaskovic-Devey

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The authors develop an explicitly sociological variant on human capital theory, emphasizing that most human capital acquisition is a social product, not an individual investment decision. The authors apply this model to racial earnings inequality, focusing on how exposure to discrimination influences both human capital acquisition and earnings inequalities as they develop across the career. The authors estimate models of career earnings trajectories, which show flatter trajectories for black and Hispanic men relative to …

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