The Emergence, Persistence, and Recent Widening of the Racial Unemployment Gap
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3405132 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert W Fairlie (0000-0002-8634-9785, National Bureau of Economic Research), William A Sundstrom (0000-0002-4401-4936, Santa Clara University) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 252 |
| Publication date | 1999-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Industrial and Labor Relations Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0019-7939 • E-ISSN: 2162-271X |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2525165 |
| OpenAlex | W3123881385, W2142927124 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 30 |
| References cited | 35 |
Census data show that the ratio of black to white unemployment rates, currently in excess of 2:1, was small or nonexistent before 1940, widened dramatically during the 1940s and 1950s, and widened again in the 1980s. The authors decompose changes in the unemployment gap over the years 1880-1990 to identify the separate contributions of changes in observable worker characteristics and shifts in labor demand. Nearly all of the widening of the gap during the 1940s and 1950s can be attributed to regional shifts of workers and declining demand in markets where black workers were concentrated. After 1970, improvements in the relative educational status of black workers would have narrowed the unemployment gap slightly, but demand shifts adverse to black workers more than canceled out these gains
Black male · Census · Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Labour economics · Persistence (discontinuity) · Population · Sociology · Unemployment · Demography · Employment and Welfare Studies · Geology · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
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| Citations per year | 1.37 |
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| Citation span | 1999 - 2025 (27) |
| Highly cited | No |