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Labor force characteristics : race, ethnicity, and minimum wage workers / Zachary Cobbs, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Business Issues, Competition and Entrepreneurship
- Business Issues, Competition and Entreprenuership
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Diversity in the workplace--United States.
- Diversity in the workplace.
- Minorities--Employment--United States.
- Minorities.
- Labor supply--United States.
- Labor supply.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (173 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, [New York] : Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Labor market differences among the race and ethnicity groups are associated with many factors, not all of which are measurable. These factors include variations across the groups in educational attainment; the occupations and industries in which the groups work; the geographic areas of the country in which the groups are concentrated, including whether they tend to reside in urban or rural settings; and the degree of discrimination encountered in the workplace. This book describes the labor force characteristics and earnings patterns among the largest race and ethnicity groups living in the Un
- Contents:
- ""LABOR FORCE CHARACTERISTICS: RACE, ETHNICITY, AND MINIMUM WAGE WORKERS""; ""LABOR FORCE CHARACTERISTICS: RACE, ETHNICITY, AND MINIMUM WAGE WORKERS""; ""Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data""; ""CONTENTS""; ""PREFACE""; ""Chapter 1: LABOR FORCE CHARACTERISTICS BY RACE AND ETHNICITY, 2013""; ""COMPOSITION OF THE LABOR FORCE""; ""LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION""; ""EMPLOYMENT""; ""EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT""; ""OCCUPATION AND INDUSTRY""; ""FAMILIES AND MOTHERS""; ""UNEMPLOYMENT AND NOT IN THE LABOR FORCE""; ""EARNINGS""; ""STATISTICAL TABLES""
- ""Chapter 2: CHARACTERISTICS OF MINIMUM WAGE WORKERS, 2013""""HIGHLIGHTS""; ""STATISTICAL TABLES""; ""TECHNICAL NOTES""; ""CONCEPTS AND DEFINITIONS""; ""INTERPRETING MINIMUM WAGE DATA""; ""RELIABILITY""; ""INDEX""; ""Blank Page""
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 26, 2015).
- ISBN:
- 1-63463-798-4
- OCLC:
- 900408822
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