Prosperity for all? : the economic boom and African Americans / Robert Cherry and William M. Rodgers III, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cherry, Robert D., 1944-

Rodgers, William M.

Russell Sage Foundation.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Economic conditions--Congresses.

African Americans.

African Americans--Employment.

Economic conditions.

African Americans--Economic conditions.

United States--Economic conditions--1981---Congresses.

United States.

African Americans--Employment--Congresses.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xxv, 322 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [2000]

Contents:

Part I Employment and the Boom 1

Chapter 1 The Effect of Tighter Labor Markets on Unemployment of Hispanics and African Americans: The 1990s Experience / Cordelia W. Reimers 3

Chapter 2 Area Economic Conditions and the Labor-Market Outcomes of Young Men in the 1990s Expansion / Richard B. Freeman, William M. Rodgers III 50

Chapter 3 Black-White Employment Differential in a Tight Labor Market / Chinhui Juhn 88

Commentary I Urban Racial Unemployment Differentials: The New York Case / Gregory E. DeFreitas 110

Part II Racial Discrimination and the Boom 127

Chapter 4 How Labor-Market Tightness Affects Employer Attitudes and Actions Toward Black Job Applicants: Evidence from Employer Surveys / Philip Moss, Chris Tilly 129

Chapter 5 Exclusionary Practices and Glass-Ceiling Effects Across Regions: What Does the Current Expansion Tell Us? / Heather Boushey, Robert Cherry 160

Chapter 6 What Do We Need to Explain About African American Unemployment? / William E. Spriggs, Rhonda M. Williams 188

Commentary II In Good Times and Bad: Discrimination and Unemployment / Cecilia A. Conrad 208

Part III Social Dimensions of the Boom 215

Chapter 7 Looking at the Glass Ceiling: Do White Men Receive Higher Returns to Tenure and Experience? / Joyce P. Jacobsen, Laurence M. Levin 217

Chapter 8 Barriers to the Employment of Welfare Recipients / Sandra Danziger, Mary Corcoran, Sheldon Danziger, Colleen Heflin, Ariel Kalil, Judith Levine, Daniel Rosen, Kristin Seefeldt, Kristine Siefert, Richard Tolman 245

Chapter 9 The Impact of Labor Market Prospects on Incarceration Rates / William Darity Jr., Samuel L. Myers Jr. 279

Commentary III Glass Ceilings, Iron Bars, Income Floors / Sanders Korenman 308.

Notes:

Revised versions of papers presented at a conference held at the Russell Sage Foundation in October 1998.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0871541971

OCLC:

43599106