Wage Compression and Wage Inequality Between Black and White Males in the United States, 1940–1960
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10101807 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thomas N Maloney (0000-0001-8231-9936, University of Chicago, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 358-381 |
| Publication date | 1994-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Economic History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0507 • E-ISSN: 1471-6372 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0022050700014522 |
| OpenAlex | W2120053883 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 29 |
| References cited | 12 |
The gap between the mean wages of black men and white men in the United States narrowed substantially between 1940 and 1950. There was, however, almost no change in this wage gap between 1950 and 1960. Some of this discontinuity in the path of black progress can be explained by general changes in the wage structure—wage compression in the 1940s and slight expansion in the 1950s. However, most of the gains of the 1940s were driven by race-specific factors, including increasing relative wages controlling for worker characteristics. These race-specific gains ceased in the 1950s
Demographic economics · Economics · Efficiency wage · Inequality · Labour economics · Race (biology · Sociology · Wage · Wage Inequality · White (mutation · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality · Labor Movements and Unions · Mathematics · Political Economy and Marxism
Explaining Black-White Wage Convergence, 1940-1950
Divergent Paths
Chapter 3 Three centuries of inequality in Britain and America
The Wage Gains of African-American Women in the 1940s
World War II and Black Economic Progress
Labor Markets, Regional Diversity, and Cotton Harvest Mechanization in the Post-World War II United States
What Do We Really Know About Racial Inequality? Labor Markets, Politics, and the Historical Basis of Black Economic Fortunes
Better Opportunities or Worse? The Demise of Cotton Harvest Labor, 1949–1964
Black Migration, White Flight
Closing the Gap or Widening the Divide
Women's Economic Advancement in the Twentieth-Century United States
African-American Economic Mobility in the 1940s
The Wage Gains of African-American Women in the 1940s
Competition in the Promised Land
Competition and the racial wage gap
Using the 1940 and 1950 Public Use Microdata Samples
Revisiting the Great Compression
Labor Markets, Regional Diversity, and Cotton Harvest Mechanization in the Post-World War II United States
An Immigrant's Tale
The Economic Progress of American Black Workers in a Period of Crisis and Change, 1916–1950
Can the Great Compression be explained by Wartime Wage Controls
Race and Home Ownership
Introduction to special issue of explorations in economic history on the impacts of World War II on the U.S. economy
World War II service and the GI Bill
The effect of World War II spending and army service on the lifespan of the Black population
The declining racial earnings' gap in United States
Obama, Katrina, and the Persistence of Racial Inequality
The Labor Market Impact of State-Level Anti-Discrimination Laws, 1940-1960
The decline of US manufacturing productivity between 1941 and 1948
Black migration in America
What Went Wrong? The Erosion of Relative Earnings and Employment Among Young Black Men in the 1980s
The Great Compression
Long-Run Changes in Occupational Wage Structure, 1900-1956
Race, Educational Attainment, and the 1940 Census
Race and Schooling in the South, 1880-1950
Negro Labor, A National Problem
Negro Labor
Black Migration in America
The Negro and Organized Labor
| Unique citing works | 29 |
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| Citations per year | 0,94 |
| Citation span | 1995 - 2025 (31) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 28 |