WAGE COMPRESSION AND WAGE INEQUALITY BETWEEN BLACK-AND-WHITE MALES IN THE UNITED-STATES, 1940-1960

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: University of Chicago
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC HISTORY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-0507
• DOI: 10.1017/S0022050700014522
• 发表日期: 1994
• 页码: 358-381
• 关键词: race

摘要

The gap between the mean wages of black men and white men in the United States narrowed substantially between 1940 and 1950. There was, however, almost no change in this wage gap between 1950 and 1960. Some of this discontinuity in the path of black progress can be explained by general changes in the wage structure-wage compression in the 1940s and slight expansion in the 1950s. However, most of the gains of the 1940s were driven by race-specific factors, including increasing relative wages controlling for worker characteristics. These race-specific gains ceased in the 1950s.