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巨大种族差异以及高技能溢价是有关非洲殖民地不平等的文献中反复出现的主题。然而，它们的决定因素和对不平等的影响仍未得到充分探讨。本文调查了英属坦噶尼喀自公元 2000 年以来的工资不平等、技能溢价和种族歧视。 1920 年至 1960 年。它提供了坦噶尼喀工资不平等和种族溢价的初步估计，并扩展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与邻国肯尼亚和乌干达相当，但在殖民时期后期仍然更高。工资不平等的一个主要驱动因素是种族工资差异，这在一定程度上是由种族歧视造成的。技能溢价也发挥着重要且日益重要的作用，并且比之前想象的要高。坦噶尼喀政府未能扩大非洲教育以满足熟练劳动力的需求，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。