The Black youth employment crisis / edited by Richard B. Freeman and Harry J. Holzer
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- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1986
- viii, 469 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0226261646
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- A National Bureau of Economic Research project report
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- Machine derived contents note: Acknowledgments
- 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
- List of Contributors
- Author Index
- Subject Index.
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- Includes bibliographies and indexes.
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