THE COLOR LINE - RACIAL NORMS AND DISCRIMINATION IN URBAN LABOR-MARKETS, 1910-1950

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: SUNDSTROM, WA
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC HISTORY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-0507
• DOI: 10.1017/S0022050700014534
• 发表日期: 1994
• 页码: 382-396
• 关键词: segregation; blacks

摘要

In both northern and southern cities of the United States, African-Americans faced a web of social constraints on such activities as housing, shopping, and everyday interpersonal interactions. Those constraints had implications for the labor market as well. In particular, norms against white subservience to blacks played an important role in determining the social composition of occupations. Close attention to the operation of such social norms can add much explanatory power to conventional economic analyses of discrimination based on human capital and taste for discrimination.