Discrimination, Nepotism, and Long-Run Wage Differentials
重新构建了贝克尔歧视模型,将重点从对黑人的歧视转向对白人的裙带关系,发现裙带型和中立型企业在长期竞争中都能存活,从而解释了种族工资差异的长期存在。
The wage discrimination model developed by Becker has been criticized for predicting that competitive forces will lead to the disappearance of racial discrimination in the long run. We have reformulated the model in terms of nepotism toward white workers rather than discrimination against black workers. In this new framework, both nepotistic and taste-neutral firms are expected to survive the competitive struggle in the long run. Therefore, the new framework is consistent with long-run as well as short-run racial wage differentials.