William E Spriggs

Biographic Data

ID1172377
NAMEWilliam E Spriggs
GIVEN NAMESWilliam E
FAMILY NAMESpriggs
SIGNATURESPRIGGS W E
AFFILIATIONSHoward University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS50
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1984
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX3

  • The Great Reversal

    Open AccessJohn Evans, William E Spriggs et al.ARTICLEJournal of Law and Political…2022

    The claim that labor market flexibility—the lack of regulations and collective bargaining constraints on employers—is essential to maximizing employment, minimizing unemployment, and obtaining growth does not have empirical support. That the claim lacks evidence can be seen by tracing how the market fundamentalist assertions made in the initial OECD Jobs Strategy in 1994 have been reversed by the OECD and by other international financial institut…

  • Wage Dynamics and Racial and Ethnic Occupational Segregation among Less-Educated Men in Metropolitan Labor Markets

    Open AccessNiki Dickerson von Lockette, William E SpriggsARTICLEThe Review of Black Political…2015Cited by: 4References: 1

    We assess whether occupational segregation in metropolitan labor markets is associated with the wages of, and contributes to racial/ethnic wage disparities among, less-educated men. To measure occupational segregation in metropolitan low wage markets, we create a segregation index measuring segregation between white, black, and Latino male high school-only educated workers and high school dropouts in 95 metropolitan labor markets utilizing a uniq…

  • The Relative Returns to Graduating from a Historically Black College/University

    Open AccessGregory Price, William E Spriggs et al.ARTICLEThe Review of Black Political…2011Cited by: 15References: 5

    This paper considers the returns to earning a baccalaureate degree from a Historically Black College/University (HBCU) relative to a non-HBCU for black Americans. With data from the National Survey of Black Americans, we use propensity score matching estimators to estimate the treatment effect of graduating from an HBCU on direct labor market outcomes, and on psychological outcomes that indirectly increase wages. We find that the treatment effect…

  • Negative Effects of State Welfare Policy on Recipient College Enrollment

    Open AccessKenya Covington, Kenya L Covington et al.ARTICLEThe Review of Black Political…2004Cited by: 2References: 1

    Postsecondary Education, Poor Woman, College Enrollment, Welfare Recipient, College Attendance

  • A Logit Decomposition Analysis of Occupational Segregation

    Open AccessValerie Rawlston, William E SpriggsARTICLEThe Review of Black Political…2002Cited by: 2

  • Accounting for the Racial Gap in AFQT Scores

    William M Rodgers, William M Rodgers Iii et al.ARTICLEIndustrial and Labor Relations…2002Cited by: 2References: 5

    William M. Rodgers III, William E. Spriggs, Accounting for the Racial Gap in AFQT Scores: Comment on Nan L. Maxwell, "The Effect on Black-White Wage Differences of Differences in the Quantity and Quality of Education", ILR Review, Vol. 55, No. 3 (Apr., 2002), pp. 533-541

  • How Does it Feel to be Free

    Open AccessRhonda M Williams, William E SpriggsARTICLEThe Review of Black Political…1999Cited by: 3

  • A Logit Decomposition Analysis of Occupational Segregation

    William E Spriggs, Rhonda M WilliamsARTICLEThe Review of Economics and…1996

    This paper uses a logit analysis to develop a new index for measuring occupational segregation by race and gender. The authors use the 'L Index' to decompose race and gender segregation into two components: the 'race' and 'gender' components, and the components attributable to the race-gender distribution of residence, education, age, and public-sector employment. They present results for the 1970s and 1980s. The authors' analysis suggests that g…

  • What Does the Afqt Really Measure

    Open AccessWilliam M Rodgers, William E SpriggsARTICLEThe Review of Black Political…1996Cited by: 22References: 1

  • Measuring Residential Segregation

    William E Spriggs, William SpriggsARTICLEPhylon (19601984

    RACIAL RESIDENTIAL SEGREGATION has been characterized by Taeuber as pervasive aspect of American urban life.' Recent studies have found that residential segregation by race does not vary with, and is more extensive than, segregation by income, occupation, or educational attainment. Thus, the study of residential segregation is an important link, both as cause and effect, in an understanding of many urban problems.2 For instance, a major implicati…