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Title: Racial Segregation Across Industries During Economic Crises: The Case of Pennsylvania, 1916-1950

Citation Type: Conference Paper

Publication Year: 2000

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Abstract: This paper has benefited significantly from the comments and suggestions of Price Fishback. Also appreciated are the comments and suggestions of the participants of the NBER Development of the American Economy Workshop 2001, World Congress of Cliometrics 2000, and the University of Arizona Econometrics Workshops. I. Introduction The difference in income between black and white workers has narrowed substantially over the past 140 years, but a substantial gap still remains. One factor that may have significantly contributed to the income differential is industrial segregation. Research exploring the existence of inter-industry wage differentials has found that the wages of observationally similar workers can differ significantly across industries (Dickens and Katz 1987, Krueger and Summers 1988). If industrial crowding systematically segregated black workers into industries with a relatively low wage structure, the impact on black workers could have been significant.

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Authors: Johnson, Ryan

Conference Name: Fourth World Congress of Cliometrics

Publisher Location: Montreal, Quebec

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Race and Ethnicity

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