工作歧视、市场力量与不可见性假说

Job Discrimination, Market Forces, and the Invisibility Hypothesis

Quarterly Journal of Economics · 1987
被引 281
人大 A+FT50ABS 4*

中文导读

提出“不可见性假说”,认为弱势工人的技能不易被新雇主发现,而晋升能提高其可见性。在竞争性劳动力市场均衡中,企业通过将弱势工人隐藏于低层岗位获利,导致其工资和晋升机会低于同等条件的其他工人,人力资本投资回报也更低。

Abstract

The Invisibility Hypothesis holds that the job skills of disadvantaged workers are not easily discovered by potential new employers, but that promotion enhances visibility and alleviates this problem. Then, at a competitive labor market equilibrium, firms profit by hiding talented disadvantaged workers in low-level jobs. Consequently, those workers are paid less on average and promoted less often than others with the same education and ability. As a result of the inefficient and discriminatory wage and promotion policies, disadvantaged workers experience lower returns to investments in human capital than other workers.

工作歧视市场力量不可见性假说晋升