Journal Article A Note on John Kain's "Housing Segregation, Negro Employment, and Metropolitan Decentralization" Get access Stanley H. Masters Stanley H. Masters University of Notre Dame Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 88, Issue 3, August 1974, Pages 505–512, https://doi.org/10.2307/1881951 Published: 01 August 1974

ECONOMISTS have shown considerable interest in the relationship between productmarket competition and wage rates. Most of the analysis has centered on manufacturing, where the less competitive industries often have larger firms and larger plants. This paper presents evidence that differences in plant size are at least as important as differences in market structure when we try to account for wage differentials among manufacturing industries.

This series consists of a number of hitherto unpublished studies, which are introduced by the editors in the belief that they represent fresh contributions to economic science. The term economic analysis as used in the title of the series has been