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Source: Nebraska Journal of Economics and Business
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Nicholson, Edward A. Roderick, Roger D. |
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Correlates of Job Attitudes Among Young Women Nebraska Journal of Economics and Business 12,4 (Autumn 1973): 77-89. Also: http://www.jstor.org/pss/40472468 Cohort(s): Young Women Publisher: University of Nebraska Press Keyword(s): Discrimination, Racial/Ethnic; Job Satisfaction; Racial Differences; Self-Reporting; Work Attitudes This report focuses on the quality of employment of young women by examining their self-reported job satisfaction. Nearly two-thirds of the whites and more than half of the blacks declared that they liked their jobs "very much," and indeed no more than four percent of either group said that they disliked their jobs "very much." That whites are more likely than blacks to have reported high satisfaction was anticipated in light of the intercolor variations in demographic characteristics, occupational assignment, and hourly rates of pay; and the explanatory model behaves largely as had been expected. Young women whose labor market achievements (occupation for both whites and blacks, and pay for blacks) compare most favorably to the achievements of others with equivalent amounts of education evidenced high job satisfaction more frequently than did those whose experiences compared less favorably to their educational reference groups. Some of the problems of one form of under-utilization are suggested by the fact that those with the highest education relative to others doing the same kind of work are least likely to report high satisfaction. Likewise, the smaller proportion of the relatively low paid blacks who report high satisfaction depicts a potential outcome of racial discrimination in the labor market. |
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Nicholson, Edward A. and Roger D. Roderick. "Correlates of Job Attitudes Among Young Women." Nebraska Journal of Economics and Business 12,4 (Autumn 1973): 77-89.
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Rycroft, Robert S. |
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Causes of the Racial Differences in Unemployment Rates among Male Youth Nebraska Journal of Economics and Business 19,4 (Autumn 1980): 37-45. Also: http://www.jstor.org/pss/40472677 Cohort(s): Young Men Publisher: University of Nebraska Press Keyword(s): Discrimination; Educational Returns; Human Capital Theory; Racial Differences; Unemployment Rate One of the most noticeable indicators of the inferior labor market position of nonwhites in the United States is the well-known differential in group unemployment rates. This research attempts to quantify the contribution of various factors to this differential using data from the 1969 NLS of Young Men. This survey year was selected because it was the peak year of the business cycle which had begun earlier in the decade, and it was felt that the likelihood of distorted results stemming from cyclical factors would be minimized. The results appear to confirm that a substantial part of the unemployment rate differential between whites and nonwhites is not explained by any inferior endowment of nonwhites. The implications of this for policy are that the standard supply-side policies of remedial education and skill training cannot be relied upon to entirely close the gap. Demand-side policies such as antidiscrimination laws and job creation programs may be required to complete the job. |
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Bibliography Citation
Rycroft, Robert S. "Causes of the Racial Differences in Unemployment Rates among Male Youth." Nebraska Journal of Economics and Business 19,4 (Autumn 1980): 37-45.
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