Race and Prevailing Wage Laws in the Construction Industry: Comment on Thieblot

Hamid Azari-Rad and Peter Philips

Journal of Labor Research, 2003, vol. 24, issue 1, 161-168

Abstract: Using the 1990 Census of Population, Thieblot (1999) argued that black employment and the strength of the prevailing wage laws are correlated and that repeal of these laws would lead to higher black employment in construction. Analysis of the 1970 Census of Population reveals that the relative abundance of black construction workers in the group of states that eventually would repeal their laws preceded those repeals and that this is mainly due to the characteristics of Southern labor markets. This and other research cast doubt on both the strength and the existence of such a correlation.

Date: 2003
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