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Title:

Black men left behind / edited by Ronald B. Mincy.

Publisher:

Urban Institute Press,

Copyright Date:

c2006

Description:

p. cm.

Subject:

African Americans--Employment
Men--Employment--United States.
Blue collar workers--United States.

Other Authors:

Mincy, Ronald B.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Less-educated young black men left behind in the economic boom of the 1990s / Ronald B. Mincy, Charles E. Lewis, Jr., and Wen-Jui Han -- Trends in the employment outcomes of young black men, 1979-2000 / Harry J. Holzer and Paul Offner -- Forecasting the labor market prospects of less-educated Americans / William M. Rodgers III -- How do employer perceptions of crime and incarceration affect the employment prospects of less-educated young black men? / Harry J. Holzer, Steven Raphael, and Michael A. Stoll -- Are less-educated women crowding less-educated men out of the labor market? / Rebecca M. Blank and Jonah Gelbach -- Did spatial mismatch affect male labor force participation during the 1990s expansion? / John A. Foster-Bey, Jr. -- Low-income black men on work opportunity, work resources, and job training programs / Alford A. Young, Jr. -- The availability and use of workforce development programs among less-educated youth / Demetra Smith Nightingale and Elaine Sorensen -- Improving public policies to increase the income and employment of low-income nonresident fathers / Wendell Primus -- Poor fathers and public policy : what is to be done? / Ron Haskins -- Toward a fruitful policy discourse about less-educated young men / Hillard Pouncy.

ISBN:

9780877667278 (alk. paper)
0877667276 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)62525156

LCCN:

2005035457

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OSAX771 -- Grand View University Library (Des Moines)

UDAX314 -- Charles C. Myers Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)

HWAX074 -- Hawkeye Community College Library (Waterloo)