Race-Gender Job Competition and Inter-Industry Wage Differentials

这一建议是对另一种理论解释的实证检验的开始，该理论解释了质量相似的工人之间持续的工资差异的普遍现象，以及长期存在的黑人-白人就业和工资差异的特殊现象。两篇文献为这一提议提供了背景。第一个代表是克鲁格和萨默对资本主义经济体行业间工资结构研究的回顾。第二种是一种新古典主义理论，它否定了长期劳动力市场歧视可以在竞争经济中持续存在的观点。这项提案的拟议研究议程与这两个文献都有关联。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，它从根本上背离了正统经济学家对竞争的传统概念。

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.