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CHINESE–FILIPINO WAGE DIFFERENTIALS IN EARLY-TWENTIETH-CENTURY MANILA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2002

John E. Murray
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Abstract

Racial or ethnic wage differentials are common in labor markets composed of easily identifiable groups. This article analyzes a rare source of historical wage data for nonwhite populations. An American labor-market survey of Manila in 1900 revealed that average Chinese wages were about a third higher than Filipino wages. This differential appears to have been in large part an overtime premium that compensated Chinese for their longer workdays; partly it reflected Chinese segregation into higher-paying industries. It is, by contrast, very hard to identify any “pure” ethnic wage premium.

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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 62 , Issue 3 , September 2002 , pp. 773 - 791
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© 2002 The Economic History Association

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