Prosperity for all? : the economic boom and African Americans / Robert Cherry and William M. Rodgers III, editors.
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- Contributor:
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- Language:
- English
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- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- xxv, 322 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [2000]
- Contents:
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- 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.
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- 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
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