The Black Youth Employment Crisis

Richard Freeman and Harry Holzer

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Date: 1986
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Chapters in this book:

The Black Youth Employment Crisis: Summary of Findings , pp 3-20

Richard Freeman and Harry Holzer

Black Youth Nonemployment: Duration and Job Search , pp 23-73

Harry Holzer

Transitions between Employment and Nonemployment , pp 75-114

John Ballen and Richard Freeman

Layoffs, Discharges and Youth Unemployment , pp 115-143

Peter Jackson and Edward Montgomery

The Spatial Mismatch Hypothesis: Are There Teenage Jobs Missing in the Ghetto? , pp 147-190

David T. Ellwood

The Demographic Determinants of the Demand for Black Labor , pp 191-232

George Borjas

Brothers of a Different Color: A Preliminary Look at Employer Treatment of White and Black Youth , pp 233-260

Jerome Culp and Bruce H. Dunson

Do Better Jobs Make Better Workers? Absenteeism from Work Among Inner-City Black Youths , pp 261-298

Ronald Ferguson and Randall Filer

Market Incentives for Criminal Behavior , pp 301-351

W Viscusi

Who Escapes? The Relation of Churchgoing and Other Background Factors to the Socioeconomic Performance of Black Male Youths from Inner-City Tracts , pp 353-376

Richard Freeman

The Effects of Attitudes and Aspirations on the Labor Supply of Young Men , pp 377-401

Linda Loury and Glenn Loury

Do Welfare Programs Affect the Schooling and Work Patterns of Young Black Men? , pp 403-441

Robert Lerman

Appendix: NBER-Mathematica Survey of Inner-City Black Youth: An Analysis of the Undercount of Older Youths , pp 443-459

John Bound

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