Remarks On Discrimination In Labor Market: A Barbara R. Bergmann's Research Introduction

Labor market is undoubtedly an important part of the market, also has been becoming the hot issue of economic research. Labor market's segmentation in space is very clear to the economists, but very few people are concerned about the splitting condition mainly due to gender and racial discrimination. As long as you glance at the labor market, such as employment market, we only come to find that discrimination in the labor market is a unpopular but obvious fact. As price mechanism and the corporate organizations, the salient features of the market economy, discrimination is a important feature of economic activities. In the U.S. labor market, especially sex discrimination and racial discrimination lie in aspects of economic life. Economists have summarily explained the reasons of discrimination about the labor market in terms of human capital theory or theory of comparative advantage from neo-classical economists. Either they simply think company's discrimination behaviors are incompatible with principals of market economy to maximize profits, for example Becker, or take it for granted that women and not white's lower human capital accumulation level are fit into some work not others. For a entrepreneur to maximize the comparative advantage of market arrangements, discrimination approach is the best response to labor market.This paper reviews Barbara R. Bergmann's, a eminent female economist, conclusions on discrimination researches in the labor market. On the contrary, she thinks gender and racial discrimination are ordinary phenomenon in economic life, and most large companies successfully implementing discrimination policies are profitable. Her works take on three characteristics:(1) she subverts the main conclusions from neo-classical economics about the phenomenon of discrimination in the labor market, based on a complete different economic methodology reflection; (2) according to lots of positive analysis of the labor market, more critical measures should be taken immediately to eradicate discrimination behaviors due to social background so that improving employment status of women and negroes than to promote the level of human capital;(3)she is concerning with more feminist-related themes, which are closely related to human life but not paid enough attention and given interpretations to.The article is generally divided into three parts:firstly, introduce Barbara R. Bergmann's background and summarize the methodology on economics. Second, mainly talk about analysis of discrimination, including gender and racial discrimination. Most empirical studies focus on the labor market, rather than the cultural and psychological fields. Third section describes her feminist economics conclusions closely related to gender discrimination, such as "housewife," "Marriage," "child support". Finally author gives a brief comment. Literatures in article author cites mainly comes from the published Bergman's papers, memoirs and famous economist economists'comments. At the end, author lists these references. Author are responsible for the article seriously, if any omissions, the reader may contact author.