Volume 5, Number 4 (Fall) 1970
Rapping, Leonard A. 1970. "Union-Induced Racial Entry Barriers." Journal of Human Resources 5(4):447-474.
This study poses the following question: Does collective bargaining heighten racial entry barriers or introduce such barriers where they did not previously exist? The study presents estimates of the effect of collective bargaining on the proportion of nonwhites in major industries for major occupational groups in the year 1960. Some time-series data covering 1910-60 are also examined in which the rate of changes in the proportion of nonwhites is related to the existence or growth of union activities. Evidence was found that on average collective bargaining heightens racial entry barriers.
The author is Professor of Economics, Graduate School of Industrial Administration, Carnegie-Mellon University. The study was financed by a grant from the Ford Foundation. Professors O. Ashenfelter, G. Cain, R. Lucas, and S. Rosen each made invaluable comments on an earlier draft of this study. The author alone bears full responsibility for the contents of this paper.
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