Explaining the Racial Unemployment Gap
Race, Region, and the Employment Status of Men, 1940
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 3354853 |
|---|---|
| Autores | William A Sundstrom (0000-0002-4401-4936, Santa Clara University, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 1997 |
| Volumen | 50 |
| Número | 3 |
| Páginas | 460 |
| Fecha de publicación | 1997-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | No |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Industrial and Labor Relations Review (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0019-7939 • E-ISSN: 2162-271X |
| Editorial | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2525185 |
| OpenAlex | W3125014449 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 5 |
| Referencias citadas | 35 |
Although the substantial and persistent gap between the unemployment rates of African-Americans and whites in the United States first emerged in aggregate statistics covering the 1940s and 1950s, disaggregation reveals that the gap already existed in urban areas before 1940. Using individual-level data on male workers from the 1940 Census, the author analyzes the causes of the unemployment gap. He finds that racial differences in measured human capital and other characteristics can explain all of the racial gap in the South but less than half of the gap in the North. This result contrasts with results from studies of wages, which have found a larger racial residual in the South than in the North
Census · Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Ethnic group · Gender gap · Human capital · Labour economics · Political science · Population · Race (biology) · Racial differences · Sociology · Unemployment · Demography · Gender Studies · Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Race, History, and American Society · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
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Monetary Tightening and the Dynamics of US Race and Gender Stratification
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School Quality and Black-White Relative Earnings
The Economics of Discrimination
An American Dilemma
Generating Inequality
An American Dilemma
Do Minority/White Unemployment Differences Really Exist
Black Workers and the New Unions
Old South, New South
Negro Employment in Southern Industry
Three-and-a-Half Million U.S. Employees Have Been Mislaid
Race, Educational Attainment, and the 1940 Census
Labor Costs, Paternalism, and Loyalty in Southern Agriculture
Racial Differences in Unemployment in the United States, 1890–1990
Getting a Foot in the Door
Last Hired, First Fired? Unemployment and Urban Black Workers During the Great Depression
Making the Effort
Race and Schooling in the South, 1880-1950
Racial discrimination and occupational attainment at the turn of the century
Employment in the Great Depression
Negroes and the Great Depression
The Color Line
The Negro's Share
The WPA and Federal Relief Policy
The Causes and Cures of Unemployment in the Great Depression
Labour Market Evolution
Racial Differences in Men's Unemployment
Explaining Black-White Wage Convergence, 1940-1950
The Negro Worker
The Negro Worker in the Depression
| Obras citantes distintas | 4 |
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| Citas por año | 0,19 |
| Intervalo de citas | 1999 - 2012 (14) |
| Velocidad de citación | historical |
| Altamente citado | No |
| Tipos de cita | Neutras: 5 |