> > White male workers' income advantages only mean that they are on
>> the average 10-15% less exploited by the ruling class than their
>> black and/or female co-workers are.
>
>What I want to know is where these people find pairs of people
>whose only difference is their whiteness or their maleness.
>
>If I'm a black woman who makes 15% less than a white man who does
>half the work I do (is productivity in the equation anywhere?),
>he's not "less exploited by 15%" . . . I'm not even sure I could
>do the math to figure this one out.
Standard wage equations, in which pay is dependent on an array of attributes, like age, experience, occupation, education, etc. Take a look at Patrick Mason's papers <http://www.nd.edu/~pmason/Research.html> for examples.
Doug