作者:Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
作者:Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); University of Pittsburgh; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of Chicago
摘要:This article addresses two related questions. To what extent did cities and towns provide African Americans adequate water and sewer services during the era of Jim Crow (1880-1925)? What motivated local governments to allow African Americans access to water and sewerage services? In light of the treatment African Americans received from state and local governments in areas such as education and police protection, it seems odd that blacks would have received any water and sewer service. Two exp...
作者:University of Missouri System; University of Missouri Saint Louis
作者:University System of Ohio; University of Toledo
摘要:Racial or ethnic wage differentials are common in labor markets composed of easily identifiable groups. This article analyzes a rare source of historical wage data for nonwhite populations. An American labor-market survey of Manila in 1900 revealed that average Chinese wages were about a third higher than Filipino wages. This differential appears to have been in large part an overtime premium that compensated Chinese for their longer workdays; partly it reflected Chinese segregation into highe...
作者:University of California System; University of California Berkeley
作者:University of Leicester
作者:University of California System; University of California Berkeley
作者:Universidad Carlos III de Madrid