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The Black youth employment crisis

Title
The Black youth employment crisis / edited by Richard B. Freeman and Harry J. Holzer.
Publication
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1986.

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Additional Authors
  • Freeman, Richard B. (Richard Barry), 1943-
  • Holzer, Harry J., 1957-
Description
viii, 469 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Series Statement
A National Bureau of Economic Research project report
Uniform Title
National Bureau of Economic Research project report.
Subject
  • Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
  • African American youth > Employment > Congresses
  • Unemployment > United States > Congresses
  • Unemployment
  • Schwarze
  • Jugendarbeitslosigkeit
  • Aufsatzsammlung
  • Trabalho E Trabalhadores
  • United States
  • USA
  • Schwärze
Genre/Form
  • Congress
  • proceedings (reports)
  • Conference papers and proceedings
  • Conference papers and proceedings.
  • Actes de congrès.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographies and indexes.
Contents
  • I. The Black Youth Employment Crisis -- The Black Youth Employment Crisis: Summary of Findings / Richard B. Freeman and Harry J. Holzer -- II. The Nature and Pattern of Change -- 1. Black Youth Nonemployment: Duration and Job Search / Harry J. Holzer -- Comment: Ronald G. Ehrenberg -- 2. Transitions between Employment and Nonemployment / John Ballen and Richard B. Freeman -- Comment: Gary Chamberlain -- 3. Layoffs, Discharges, and Youth Unemployment / Peter Jackson and Edward Montgomery -- Comment: James L. Medoff -- III. Causes: Demand -- 4. The Spatial Mismatch Hypothesis: Are There Teenage Jobs Missing in the Ghetto? / David T. Ellwood -- Comment: Jonathan S. Leonard -- 5. The Demographic Determinants of the Demand for Black Labor / George J. Borjas -- Comment: Daniel S. Hamermesh.
  • 6. Brothers of a Different Color: A Preliminary Look at Employer Treatment of White and Black Youth / Jerome Culp and Bruce H. Dunson -- Comment: Paul Osterman -- 7. Do Better Jobs Make Better Workers? Absenteeism from Work Among Inner-City Black Youths / Ronald Ferguson and Randall Filer -- Comment: Charles Brown -- IV. Causes: Supply -- 8. Market Incentives for Criminal Behavior / W. Kip Viscusi -- Comment: James W. Thompson and James Cataldo -- 9. Who Escapes? The Relation of Churchgoing and Other Background Factors to the Socioeconomic Performance of Black Male Youths from Inner-City Poverty Tracts / Richard B. Freeman -- 10. The Effects of Attitudes and Aspirations on the Labor Supply of Young Men / Linda Datcher-Loury and Glenn C. Loury -- Comment: Michael J. Piore -- 11. Do Welfare Programs Affect the Schooling and Work Patterns of Young Black Men? / Robert Lerman -- Comment: Samuel L. Meyers, Jr. -- Appendix: NBER-Mathematica Survey of Inner-City Black Youth: An Analysis of the Undercount of Older Youths / John Bound.
ISBN
  • 0226261646
  • 9780226261645
LCCN
85020989
OCLC
  • ocm12693773
  • 12693773
  • SCSB-1181676
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library