MODEL’S EXPERIMENT How ethnicity and gender effect Afro-Caribbean Economics

Introduction ■Model takes a sample of economic public data from four groups: West Indian, Afro-American, Foreign Born White and Native-born whites. Through her own calculation methods she has developed a way of quantifying all the variable and accumulating them as earnings. By collecting data from these four groups, she is able to compare white and black economic standing as well as Native Black and West Indian Economic Earning. She also makes a distinction between male and female as well as ethnicity in order to observe the effects these factors have on economic standing.

Variables in the Experiments This table shows all of the variables involved in Model’s analysis of Afro- Caribbean earnings. Taking these variables into account will provide a fuller profile of each group

Calculated variables and Comparison between Groups In this table, Model quantifies the mean and standard deviation of education, Age, Marital status, Hours worked per week, Weeks worked per Year, and Earnings and compares them between the four groups. She also separates the male data from the female data.

Division of West Indians into Ethnicities

Continuation…. In this Table, shown in this slide and the last, Model divides the West Indian Category into ethnic subgroups and runs the same calculation of the same variables on these subgroups. This provides a more detailed profile on the West Indian Immigrants’ economic standing. It also allows us to compare the economic standing of several West Indian ethnicities. Like the last table, male and Female Data were separated to be studied as economic factors.

Ethnic Subgroups vs. Whites After comparing the West Indian ethnic subgroups against one another, Model compares them to the Native-Born and Foreign-Born Whites. This allows us to see which ethnicities are very different from the Whites and which are not as different in terms of economic standing.

Discussion of Results ■In the second table the West Indian Group had a large earnings deficit in comparison to the Native Blacks and an even larger deficit in comparison to the whites. The female West Indian Group however, did not have a significant difference in earnings when compared to Native Black or White Women. Tis shows that gender does effect economic standing. One explanation may be that the affirmative action plan requires hat companies hire some Blacks and some Females and so by hiring West Indian women, owners are able to hit two birds with one stone. ■In the third table in slides 5 and 6, Trinidadians, Virgin Islanders and Cubans men were shown to earn more than Afro-Americans whereas the other ethnicities seemed to earn less. The West Indian female ethnic subgroups all earned slightly less than there Afro American counterparts but the difference is insignificant.

Continuation…. ■The final table revealed that female Haitians Puerto Ricans, Cubans, and, Dominican Republicans all earned more than the female whites where as the other ethnicities earned less than the female whites. The male West Indian ethnic sub groups however, all earned less than their white counterparts. ■Based on the results, Model concludes that the past data that insinuated that Afro-Caribbean Immigrants are on higher economic standing than the Afro-American is no longer applicable in the present. But she also concludes that gender and ethnicity are important factors in socioeconomics and that the difference in gender proved to be interesting as it may indicate a cultural difference between different gender that lead to different earnings.