Author: Richard Barry FreemanPublisher:
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 61
Book Description
Black Economic Progress After 1964
Author: Richard Barry FreemanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 61
Book Description
Economic Progress of Blacks After 200 Years
Author: Herrington J. BrycePublisher:
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Highlights the progress of Afro-Americans in the area of economics and considers major issues to be confronted in the future.
Closing the Gap
Author: James P. SmithPublisher: RAND Corporation
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
This report undertakes a reassessment of the economic progress of American blacks over the past 40 years, drawing on the 1980 Census micro data file and the newly released micro data files for the 1940 and 1950 Censuses. Its most basic concern is whether the economic lot of black men has improved significantly in the 40-year period, but it also considers whether economic progress has touched all parts of the black community. Finally, it attempts to isolate the underlying causes of black economic progress by considering the roles played by education, migration to the north, and affirmative action.
Paradoxes in Black Economic Progress
Author: Ronald B. MincyPublisher:
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
The Economic Progress of Black Men in America
Author: June O'NeillPublisher:
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Category : African American men
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
African Americans in the U.S. Economy
Author: Cecilia A. ConradPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 0742568598
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Over the last several decades, academic discourse on racial inequality has focused primarily on political and social issues with significantly less attention on the complex interplay between race and economics. African Americans in the U.S. Economy represents a contribution to recent scholarship that seeks to lessen this imbalance. This book builds upon, and significantly extends, the principles, terminology, and methods of standard economics and black political economy. Influenced by path-breaking studies presented in several scholarly economic journals, this volume is designed to provide a political-economic analysis of the past and present economic status of African Americans. The chapters in this volume represent the work of some of the nation's most distinguished scholars on the various topics presented. The individual chapters cover several well-defined areas, including black employment and unemployment, labor market discrimination, black entrepreneurship, racial economic inequality, urban revitalization, and black economic development. The book is written in a style free of the technical jargon that characterizes most economics textbooks. While the book is methodologically sophisticated, it is accessible to a wide range of students and the general public and will appeal to academicians and practitioners alike.
Illusions of Black Economic Progress
Author: William A. DarityPublisher:
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Persistent Disparity
Author: William A. DarityPublisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The authors assess the extent of black economic progress in the U.S. since World War II and forecast the development of the black-white income gap into the 21st century. Competing explanatory theories for the gap are examined and ameliorative policies are explored. They conclude that current policies will be insufficient to close the gap in the future. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Not Slave, Not Free
Author: Jay R. MandlePublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822312208
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Since its publication in 1978, Jay R. Mandle's The Roots of Black Poverty has come to be seen as a landmark publication in the study of the political economy of the postbellum South. In Not Slave, Not Free, Mandle substantially revises and updates his earlier work in light of significant new research. The new edition provides an enhanced historical perspective on the African American economic experience since emancipation. Not Slave, Not Free focuses first on rural southern society before World War II and the role played by African Americans in that setting. The South was the least developed part of the United States, a fact that Mandle considers fundamental in accounting for the poverty of African Americans in the years before the War. At the same time, however, the concentration of the black labor force in plantation work significantly retarded the South's economic growth. Tracing the postwar migration of blacks from the South, Mandle shifts attention to the problems and opportunities that confronted African Americans in cities. He shows how occupational segregation and income growth accelerated this migration. Instrumental to an understanding of the history of the political economy of the United States, this book also directs readers and policymakers to the central issues confronting African Americans today.
Gender in the Labor Market
Author: Solomon W. PolachekPublisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
ISBN: 9781785601415
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Why in 2015 are there still large gender differences in economic success? This volume consists of a set of state of the art research articles to answer this question. Focus areas include educational attainment, financial risk management, bargaining power, social mobility, and intergenerational transfers in the US and abroad.