Choral Ensembles Holiday Concert, Hodie Christus natus est

KSU School of Music presents Choral Ensembles Holiday Concert, Hodie Christus natus est.https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/musicprograms/1186/thumbnail.jp

First Farmers: the Origins of Agricultural Societies, by Peter Bellwood. Malden (MA): Blackwell, 2005; ISBN 0-631-20565-9

There can be no doubt that Peter Bellwood's First Farmers is a major new statement which presents a robustly expressed solution to one of those classic problems which provides a benchmark for theorization and justifies archaeology as a field. But agreement stops there. Few academic books published recently have evoked such highly charged reactions. On the one hand, First Farmers has impressed many critics, reached audiences far afield from traditional archaeological readerships, and garnered major book awards from professional bodies such as the Society for American Archaeology. On the other hand, it has been subjected to a level of concerted criticism rare in the academic world. As the reviews below show, it has clearly hit a nerve; the gloves are of

Racial wage gaps and differences in human capital

This paper uses the Cotton/Neumark decomposition methodology and 1990 CPS data to investigate the relative importance of labour market structure and human capital in explaining the white male/Asian, white male/black, white male/Hispanic wage gaps. We find that labour market structure is more important than human capital in explaining the white minority wage gaps. Moreover, most of the labour market structural effects are due to differential returns to white structural characteristics. Our result is robust to the specification of human capital. Our results contradict the results of research that indicate that the white/minority wage gaps can be explained solely by differences in the endowment of human capital. Our results have implications for narrowing the wage gaps between whites and racial minorities.