Stories employers tell : race, skill, and hiring in America / Philip Moss and Chris Tilly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moss, Philip I., author.

Contributor:

Tilly, Chris

John Lammey Stewart Memorial Library Fund.

Series:

Multi city study of urban inequality

A volume in the multi-city study of urban inequality

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Career development--Social aspects--United States.

Career development.

Minorities--Employment--United States.

Minorities.

Minorities--Employment.

Career development--Social aspects.

United States.

Discrimination in employment--United States.

Discrimination in employment.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 317 pages) : map.

Place of Publication:

New York : Russell Sage Foundation, ©2001.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

"Is the United States justified in seeing itself as a meritocracy, where stark inequalities in pay and employment reflect differences in skills, education, and effort? Or does racial discrimination still permeate the labor market, resulting in the systematic underhiring and underpaying of racial minorities, regardless of merit? Throughout the 1980s and early 1990s African Americans have lost ground to whites in the labor market, but this widening racial inequality is most often attributed to economic restructuring, not the racial attitudes of employers.

It is argued that the educational gap between blacks and whites, through narrowing, carries greater penalties now that we are living in an era of global trade and technological change that favors highly educated workers and displaces the low-skilled."

"Stories Employers Tell demonstrates that this conventional wisdom is incomplete. Racial discrimination is still a fundamental part of the explanation of labor market disadvantage. Drawing upon a wide-ranging survey of empolyers in Atlanta, Boston, Detroit, and Los Angeles, Philip Moss and Chris Tilly investigate the types of jobs employers offer, the skills required, and the recruitment, screening, and hiring procedures used to fill them. The authors then follow up in greater depth on selected employers to explore the attitudes, motivations, and rationale underlying their hiring decisions, as well as decisions about where to locate a business."--Jacket.

Contents:

Racial inequality in the labor market: market forces or discrimination?

The scope of the study: data, methods, and the four cities

The skills employers seek

Employer perceptions of race and skill

Employers view the inner city / with Ivy Kennelly and Joleen Kirschenman

Hiring procedures and the role of formality

The moral of the tale: designing better labor market policies

Appendix A. Profiles of data sets used in this book

Appendix B. Descriptive statistics of variables.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John Lammey Stewart Memorial Library Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Moss, Philip I. Stories employers tell

ISBN:

9781610444101

1610444108

OCLC:

906809676

Publisher Number:

10.7758/9781610444101

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.