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Prosperity For All? The Economic Boom and African Americans / Robert Cherry and William M. Rodgers III, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Employment--Congresses.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Economic conditions--Congresses.
- United States--Economic conditions--1981-2001--Congresses.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (349 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2016
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Russell Sage Foundation, 2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- With the nation enjoying a remarkable long and robust economic expansion, AfricanAmerican employment has risen to an all-time high.Does this good news refute the notion of a permanently disadvantaged black underclass, or has one type of disadvantage been replaced by another?.
- Contents:
- Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction - Robert Cherry and William M. Rodgers III; Part I: Employment and the Boom; Chapter 1. The Effect of Tighter Labor Markets on Unemployment of Hispanics and African Americans: The 1990s Experience - Cordelia W. Reimers; Chapter 2. Area Economic Conditions and the Labor-Market Outcomes of Young Men in the 1990s Expansion - Richard B. Freeman and William M. Rodgers III; Chapter 3. Black-White Employment Differential in a Tight Labor Market - Chinhui Juhn
- Commentary I. Urban Racial Unemployment Differentials: The New York Case - Gregor E. DeFreitasPart II: Racial Discrimination and the Boom; Chapter 4. How Labor-Market Tightness Affects Employer Attitudes and Actions Toward Black Job Applicants: Evidence from Employer Surveys - Philip Moss and Chris Tilly; Chapter 5. Exclusionary Practices and Glass-Ceiling Effects Across Regions: What Does the Current Expansion Tell Us? - Heather Boushey and Robert Cherry; Chapter 6. What Do We Need to Explain About African American Unemployment? - William E. Spriggs and Rhonda M. Williams
- Commentary II. In Good Times and Bad: Discrimination and Unemployment - Cecilia A. ConradPart III: Social Dimensions of the Boom; Chapter 7. Looking at the Glass Ceiling: Do White Men Receive Higher Returns to Tenure and Experience? - Joyce P. Jacobsen and Laurence M. Levin; 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, and Richard Tolman
- Chapter 9. The Impact of Labor Market Prospects on Incarceration Rates - William Darity Jr. and Samuel L. Myers Jr.Commentary III. Glass Ceilings, Iron Bars, Income Floors - Sanders Korenman; Index
- Notes:
- Revised versions of papers presented at a conference held at the Russell Sage Foundation in October 1998.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-61044-123-0
- OCLC:
- 908637590
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