Race-Gender Job Competition and Inter-Industry Wage Differentials

这一建议提出了对质量相似的工人之间持续工资差异的一般现象和长期存在的黑人-白人就业和工资差异的特殊现象的另一种理论解释的经验检验的开始。两篇文献为这一建议提供了背景。第一种是克鲁格和萨默对资本主义经济产业间工资结构研究的回顾。第二种是新古典主义理论，它拒绝了劳动力市场长期歧视可能在竞争经济中持续存在的观点。本提案提出的研究议程涉及这两种文献。在某种程度上，它可以解释黑人和白人之间的工资差异，它也解决了工资理论家更普遍的担忧；然而，它是通过彻底背离正统经济学家对竞争的传统概念来实现这一点的。

This proposal presents the beginnings of the empirical examination of an alternative theoretical explanation of both the general phenomena of sustained wage differentials between qualitatively similar workers, and the particular phenomena of longstanding black-white employment and wage differentials. Two literatures provide the context for this proposal. The first is represented by Krueger and Summer's review of studies on the inter-industry wage structures of capitalist economies. The second is a neoclassical theory that have rejected the idea that long-term labor market discrimination can persist in a competitive economy. The proposed research agenda of this proposal speaks to both of these literatures. To the extent that it can explain wage differentials between black and whites, it also addresses the more general concerns of wage theorists; however, it does so by making a radical departure from the orthodox economists' conventional conceptualization of competition.