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" The Black youth employment crisis "
edited by Richard B. Freeman and Harry J. Holzer.
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BL
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558289
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b387208
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Richard B Freeman
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The Black youth employment crisis\ edited by Richard B. Freeman and Harry J. Holzer.
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Chicago : University of Chicago Press,, 1986.
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National Bureau of Economic Research project report.
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viii, 469 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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0226261646
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: 9780226261645
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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.
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Aufsatzsammlung; Conference papers and proceedings; Congresses
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Harry J Holzer
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