Youth and Minority Unemployment
Author : Walter Edward Williams
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Page : 36 pages
File Size : 33,6 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Manpower policy
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Author : Walter Edward Williams
Publisher :
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 33,6 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Manpower policy
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Author : Walter Edward Williams
Publisher : Hoover Press
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 29,45 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Business & Economics
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Author : Richard B. Freeman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 37,24 MB
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0226261824
In recent years, the earnings of young blacks have risen substantially relative to those of young whites, but their rates of joblessness have also risen to crisis levels. The papers in this volume, drawing on the results of a groundbreaking survey conducted by the National Bureau of Economic Research, analyze the history, causes, and features of this crisis. The findings they report and conclusions they reach revise accepted explanations of black youth unemployment. The contributors identify primary determinants on both the demand and supply sides of the market and provide new information on important aspects of the problem, such as drug use, crime, economic incentives, and attitudes among the unemployed. Their studies reveal that, contrary to popular assumptions, no single factor is the predominant cause of black youth employment problems. They show, among other significant factors, that where female employment is high, black youth employment is low; that even in areas where there are many jobs, black youths get relatively few of them; that the perceived risks and rewards of crime affect decisions to work or to engage in illegal activity; and that churchgoing and aspirations affect the success of black youths in finding employment. Altogether, these papers illuminate a broad range of economic and social factors which must be understood by policymakers before the black youth employment crisis can be successfully addressed.
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Publisher :
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 27,87 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Discrimination in employment
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Author : Walter Edward Williams
Publisher :
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 25,44 MB
Release : 1977
Category :
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Author :
Publisher :
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 36,86 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Unemployed
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Author : United States. Vice President's Task Force on Youth Employment
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 32,44 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Manpower policy
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Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 44,17 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Minorities
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Author : American Assembly
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 36,47 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Business & Economics
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Author : Lynn S. Chancer
Publisher :
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 36,10 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0190685891
While overall unemployment has declined, the unemployment rate remains nearly twice as high for young people 16 to 19 years of age and nearly three times as high for those aged 20 to 24. Rates of unemployment and underemployment are nearly two to three times higher for Black and Latino youth. In Youth, Jobs, and the Future, Lynn S. Chancer, Mart n S nchez-Jankowski, and Christine Trost have gathered a cast of well-known interdisciplinary scholars to confront the persistent issues of youth unemployment and worsening socio-economic precarity in the United States. The book explores structural and cultural causes of youth unemployment, their ramifications for both native and immigrant youth, and how middle- and working-class youth across diverse races and ethnicities are affected within and outside the legal economy. A needed contribution, this book locates solutions to youth unemployment in economic and political changes as well as changes in cultural attitudes.