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1. Peterson, George E.
Vroman, Wayne
Urban Labor Markets and Job Opportunity
Washington, DC: Urban Institute Press, January 1992
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Urban Institute
Keyword(s): Inner-City; Job Skills; Labor Economics; Labor Market Demographics; Mobility, Job; Risk-Taking; Schooling; Skilled Workers; Small Business (Owner/Employer); Transfers, Skill; Unemployment, Youth

Three fundamental mismatches in labor markets are being played out in the cities: the skills mismatch between the young people emerging from urban school systems and high-paying jobs in the growth sectors of the economy; the spatial mismatch between unemployed workers in the inner cities and the new jobs being generated in the suburbs; and the social mismatch between employers unwilling to take risks in hiring and city youth who from a young age have been part of the high-risk worlds of drugs and crime. This volume investigates the structural changes that have produced these mismatches and how various vehicles for job mobility are now functioning.

Table of Contents
Urban labor markets and economic opportunity / George E. Peterson, Wayne Vroman -- Changing skills in the U.S. workforce : trends of supply and demand / Arnold H. Packer, John G. Wirt -- Comment : skill requirements and the work force / Lawrence Mishel -- Comment : restructuring work and learning / Richard J. Murnane -- Mismatches and the urban labor market / Harry J. Holzer, Wayne Vroman -- Structural changes in the U.S. economy and black male joblessness : a reassessment / James H. Johnson, Jr., Melvin L. Oliver -- Comment : structural change and black unemployment / Keith R. Ihlanfeldt -- Comment : demand-side and supply-side explanations of black male joblessness / Roberto M. Fernandez -- Urban schooling and the perpetuation of job inequality in metropolitan Chicago / Gary Orfield -- Crime and the employment of disadvantaged youths / Richard B. Freeman -- Facilitating upward mobility through small business ownership / Timothy Bates, Constance R. Dunham -- Immigrants, cities, and equal opportunity / Michael J. White -- Comment : social structure and business development / Richard Waldinger.

Bibliography Citation
Peterson, George E. and Wayne Vroman. Urban Labor Markets and Job Opportunity. Washington, DC: Urban Institute Press, January 1992.