GOVERNMENT‐MANDATED DISCRIMINATORY POLICIES: THEORY AND EVIDENCE*
研究政府强制歧视政策对劳动力市场的影响，发现即使公共部门工资最高，受歧视群体仍可能平均经济更成功，并用马来西亚1970年新经济政策后的华裔与马来裔工资差距验证模型。
We study an economy with private and public sectors in which workers invest in imperfectly observable skills that are important to the private sector but not to the public sector. Government regulation allows native majority workers to be employed in the public sector with positive probability while excluding the minority from it. We show that even when the public sector offers the highest wage rate, it is still possible that the discriminated group is, on average, economically more successful. The widening Chinese/Malay wage gap in Malaysia since the adoption of its New Economic Policy in 1970 supports our model.