High racial disparities between Europeans and Africans and high skill premiums are recurrent themes in the literature on inequality in colonial Africa. However, their determinants and effects on inequality remain underexplored. This paper investigates wage inequality, skill premiums, and racial discrimination in British Tanganyika from c. 1920 to 1960. It provides first estimates for wage inequality and race premiums in Tanganyika and extends the coverage of earlier skill premium estimates. Initially, wage inequality in Tanganyika was comparable to neighbouring Kenya and Uganda, but it remained higher in the late colonial period. A primary driver of wage inequality was racial wage disparity, which was partly caused by racial discrimination. Skill premiums also played an important and increasing role and were higher than previously thought. The Tanganyikan administration's failure to expand African education to meet skilled labour demand significantly contributed to racial income differences and wage inequality within the African labour force.

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英属坦噶尼喀的技能、种族和工资不平等


欧洲人和非洲人之间的高度种族差异和高技能溢价是关于非洲殖民地不平等的文献中反复出现的主题。然而，它们对不平等的决定因素和影响仍未得到充分探索。本文调查了 1920 年至 1960 年左右英属坦噶尼喀的工资不平等、技能溢价和种族歧视。它对坦噶尼喀的工资不平等和种族溢价进行了初步估计，并扩大了早期技能溢价估计的覆盖范围。最初，坦噶尼喀的工资不平等程度与邻国肯尼亚和乌干达相当，但在殖民时期后期仍然较高。工资不平等的一个主要驱动因素是种族工资差距，这部分是由种族歧视造成的。技能溢价也发挥了重要且不断增长的作用，并且比以前认为的要高。坦噶尼坎政府未能扩大非洲教育以满足熟练劳动力需求，这在很大程度上导致了非洲劳动力内部的种族收入差异和工资不平等。