Revised versions of papers presented at a conference held at the Russell Sage Foundation in October 1998. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The effect of tighter labor markets on unemployment of Hispanics and African Americans: The 1990s experience / Cordelia W. Reimers -- Area economic conditions and the labor-market outcomes of young men in the 1990s expansion / Richard B. Freeman, William M. Rodgers III -- Black-white employment differential in a tight labor market / Chinhui Juhn -- Urban racial unemployment differentials: The New York case / Gergory E. DeFreitas -- How labor-market tightness affects employer attitudes and actions toward black job applicants: evidence from employer surveys / Philip Moss, Chris Tilly --Exclusionary practices and glass-ceiling effects across regions: what does the current expansion tell us? / Heather Boushey, Robert Cherry -- What do we need to explain about African American unemployment? / William E. Spriggs, Rhonda M. Williams -- In good times and bad: discrimination and unemployment / Eceilia A. Conrad -- Looking at the glass ceiling: do white men receive higher returns to tenure and experience? / Joyce P. Jacobsen, Laurence M. Levin -- Barriers to the employment of welfare recipients / Sandra Danziger, et...al -- The impact of labor market prospects on incarceration rates / William Darity Jr., Samuel L. Myers Jr. -- Glass ceilings, iron bars, income floors / Sanders Korenman.
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