Reply to "Racial Differences in Time at Work Not Working" by William A. Darity Jr. et al.

RACIAL differences; EMPLOYMENT discrimination; WAGE differentials; WORKING hours

Since the estimated impact on among non-Black Hispanic males in H-G-B (Table 2) was greater than among African Americans, if also being Hispanic is associated with a higher , the D-H-M-P-X definition of the minority will generate a (slightly) smaller racial difference. D-H-M-P-X conclude that their calculations of racial differences in the fraction of non-work time at work ( ) "would translate into a Black-White wage/earnings ratio of approximately 99%, or practically parity." Keywords: discrimination; time use; effort; wage EN discrimination time use effort wage 573 577 5 04/04/22 20220501 NES 220501 Darity, Hamilton, Myers, Price, and Xu (2021) (hereafter D-H-M-P-X) have written a provocative piece criticizing our recent study of racial/ethnic differences in the fraction of time at work that individuals spend in non-work activities, such as eating, cleaning up, socializing, relaxing and leisure, and safety procedures ([7]; hereafter H-G-B). In other words, despite all the possible differences in method and data, results in both studies show that racial differences in explain about 10% of the adjusted racial wage differential, accounting for a 1 percentage point difference in adjusted wages. [Extracted from the article]

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