双语阅读英语外刊精讲：美国的工作与种族(附音频)

2019-03-19 09:50:00来源：酷学英语

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　　United States

　　美国

　　Working and Race: Colouring in

　　工作与种族：上色

　　A trio of labour economists suggest that effort at work is correlated with race.

　　由三名劳动经济学家组成的团队声称工作效率与人种有关。

　　GIVEN the long history of making racial slurs about the efforts of some workers, any study casting black and Hispanic men as lazier than whites and Asians is sure to court controversy.

　　长期以来，与员工工作效率有关的种族歧视争议屡见不鲜，宣称黑人和拉丁裔人比白人和亚洲人更懒散的研究结果一定会引发口水战。

　　A provocative new working paper by economists Daniel Hamermesh, Katie Genadek and Michael Burda sticks a tentative toe into these murky waters.

　　而由经济学家Daniel Hamermesh、Katie Genadek和Michael Burda提交的一份新论文则在这潭浑水中掀起了又一轮风波。

　　They suggest that America’s well-documented racial wage gap is overstated by 10% because minorities, especially men, spend larger portions of their workdays not actually working.

　　他们声称，在美国，有证据支持的种族薪资差距数据被夸大了10%，其原因是少数族裔员工，尤其是其中的男性员工在工作时间内存在更多的偷懒现象。

　　After rejecting a number of plausible explanations for why this might be, the authors finally attribute the discrepancy to unexplained “cultural differences”.

　　在排除了一系列看似可能的原因后，论文作者最终将这种差距归结为原因不明的“文化差异”。

　　Acutely aware of the sensitivity of these findings, the professors delayed publication until after the presidential election.

　　三名教授们深知这一研究结果过于敏感，所以他们选择在美国总统大选结束之后才对外公布。

　　“I knew full well that Trump and his minions would use it as a propaganda piece,” says Mr Hamermesh, a colourful and respected labour economist.

　　Hamermesh先生是一位备受尊敬的劳动经济学家，同时他自己也属于有色人种。他表示：“我非常清楚特朗普和他的手下会借此进行宣传。”

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