Accumulation and discrimination in the postbellum South
Accumulation and discrimination in the postbellum South
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战后南方的积累和歧视
DOI：
10.1016/0014-4983(79)90014-7
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发表时间：
1979
影响因子：
2.3
通讯作者：
S. DeCanio
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作者：
S. DeCanio
南北战争后南方黑人和白人之间的经济不平等可以归因于两个因素：种族歧视和没有任何有形财富的再分配来伴随解放。本文表明，自由民最初缺乏财产是种族相关的收入差异的最重要原因。自由人和白人之间最初的财富差距之大，足以保证在解放后很长一段时间内，即使所有的市场都完美地运作，收入不平等也会持续很长时间。此外，黑人和白人之间经济差距缩小的实际速度表明，存在着一些力量，它们延长了消除最初财富不平等影响所需的时间。
Economic inequality between blacks and whites in the postbellum South can be attributed to two factors: racial discrimination and the absence of any redistribution of tangible wealth to accompany emancipation. This paper shows that the freedmen's initial lack of property was the most important cause of race-related income differences. The initial wealth gap between the freedmen and the whites was large enough to guarantee that a great deal of income inequality would have persisted long after emancipation, even if all markets had functioned perfectly. In addition, the actual rate at which the economic distance between blacks and whites was being reduced suggests the existence of forces which lengthened the time required to eradicate the effects of the initial wealth inequality.