Tracing Barbara Bergmann's Occupational Crowding Hypothesis: A Recent History
追溯伯格曼1971年职业拥挤假说在歧视经济学文献中的位置，解释其为何未在主流经济学中持久，而主要被女性主义和分层经济学所继承。
Abstract Barbara Bergmann was well known for many contributions to economics, but she was perhaps most famous for her 1971 occupational crowding hypothesis. The hypothesis was published during a surge of literature on the economics of discrimination, and it temporarily stood among the mainstream neoclassical theories before being relegated primarily to feminist and stratification economics. This article situates the crowding hypothesis among contemporary competing theories on the economics of discrimination and explains why it did not last in the mainstream camp. Despite Bergmann's neoclassical framing, the model's conclusions did not align with models of perfect competition and more closely aligned with heterodox perspectives on group power and conflict.