The Improving Relative Status of Black Men

Couch, Kenneth A.; Daly, Mary C.

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“…The ratio of these two rates, 2.3, is consistent with the observation that unemployment among blacks typically doubles that of whites. 1 The stability of this unemployment ratio has been noted (Welch, 1990 andSmith, Vanski, andHolt 1974) as an anomaly that stands in contrast to measured increases in relative black wages observed in the past three decades (Welch 2003, Couch and Daly 2002, 2005. 2 Many have conjectured that the relative constancy of the difference in black and white unemployment is due to minorities being the last hired and first fired over the business cycle (Harrington 1962, Freeman 1973, Barrett and Morgenstern 1974, Browne 1997, and Bradbury 2000.…”

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Last hired, first fired? black-white unemployment and the business cycle

2010

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Past studies have tested the claim that blacks are the last hired during periods of economic growth and the first fired in recessions by examining the movement of relative unemployment rates over the business cycle. Any conclusion drawn from this type of analysis must be viewed as tentative because the cyclical movements in the underlying transitions into and out of unemployment are not examined. Using Current Population Survey data matched across adjacent months from 1989 to 2004, this paper provides the first examination of labor market transitions for prime-age black and white men to test the last-hired, first-fired hypothesis. Considerable evidence is presented that blacks are the first fired as the business cycle weakens. However, no evidence is found that blacks are the last hired. Instead, blacks are initially hired from the ranks of the unemployed early in the business cycle and later are drawn from non-participation. The narrowing of the racial unemployment gap near the peak of the business cycle is driven by a reduction in the rate of job loss for blacks rather than increases in hiring. These dynamic patterns and their timing have not been identified in the previous literature.

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“…Most of the studies in Israel have focussed on FSU immigrants, while ignoring Ethiopian immigrants who are black-skinned and thus differ from both FSU immigrants and native Jews in that respect. Researchers in the USA, including Couch and Daly (2004), Smith and Welch (1977), Blau and Beller (1992) and Card and Krueger (1992), have found that the earnings of native whites are higher than those of native blacks. Chiswick (1978) found that immigrants in the USA earn less than natives in the period following their arrival [5].…”

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Even education has its limits: closing the wage gap

Epstein

Gafni

Siniver

2015

Journal of Economic Studies

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2015),"Agent-based risk management -a regulatory approach to financial markets", Journal of Economic Studies, Vol. 42 Iss 5 pp. 780-820 http://dx.If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation. AbstractPurpose -Economic outcomes are compared for university graduates in Israel belonging to four different ethnic groups. A unique data set is used that includes all individuals who graduated with a first degree from universities and colleges in Israel between the years 1995 and 2008 and which tracks them for up to ten years from the year they graduated. The main finding is that education and experience appear to have a strong effect on earnings in the long run and that an ethnic group can improve its position relative to certain groups while there is no effect relative to other groups. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach -The authors consider three of the main factors determining the success of assimilation: size of the ethnic group; cultural differences between groups and skin color; and examine how these factors affect economic outcomes. The authors use a unique data set that includes all individuals who graduated with a first degree from universities and colleges in Israel between the years 1995 and 2008. Findings -The results obtained in this study show that on average native Jews attain the best economic outcomes, followed by FSU immigrants, Israeli Arabs and finally Ethiopian immigrants. Education and experience appear to have a strong effect on earnings in the long run. An ethnic group can improve its position relative to other groups as they accumulate work experience. Originality/value -This is the first time that the Ethiopian immigrants where taken into account.

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“…Work by Couch and Daly (, ) casts doubt on the importance of exits of lower qualified blacks in inflating the progress of relative black to white pay by examining trends in black to white pay over the boom period of the 1990s. If marginally qualified black workers are drawn into the labor market during a period of low unemployment, relative wage progress should fall.…”

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Fifty Years Later: The Legacy of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

Hersch¹,

Shinall²

2015

J. Pol. Anal. Manage.

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This paper assesses the legacy of the Civil Rights Act over the past 50 years, reviewing its history, scope, and impact on wage, employment, and segregation outcomes of the Act's five protected classes. In addition to improving outcomes for protected classes, the Act launched a period of expanded civil rights legislation and established a framework that allows expansion of coverage through judicial interpretation without requiring passage of new laws. Applications include prohibiting sexual harassment as a form of sex discrimination and protection against color discrimination separately from race discrimination, which may be increasingly salient with increased immigration and with a multirace population.

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The Improving Relative Status of Black Men

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Last hired, first fired? black-white unemployment and the business cycle

Last hired, first fired? black-white unemployment and the business cycle

Even education has its limits: closing the wage gap

Fifty Years Later: The Legacy of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

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