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Title: Social Mobility in the New Market for Black Workers
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Freeman, Richard B. |
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Social Mobility in the New Market for Black Workers Discussion Paper (Mimeo), Harvard Institute of Economic Research, Havard University, Cambridge MA, 1974 Cohort(s): Older Men, Young Men Publisher: Harvard Institute of Economic Research Keyword(s): Discrimination, Racial/Ethnic; Earnings; Educational Returns; Mobility; Private Schools; Socioeconomic Status (SES); Vocational Training Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper examines the effect of the improved labor market for black Americans on longstanding patterns of intergenerational social mobility. It finds that the impact of parental status on blacks has increased substantially in recent years and that black/white background differences have become the critical factor in economic disparities among young workers. The results contrast sharply with traditional findings on the "failure" of black families to transmit socio-economic status to their children and on the relative importance of background and discrimination as determinants of economic differences between black and white men. |
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Freeman, Richard B. "Social Mobility in the New Market for Black Workers." Discussion Paper (Mimeo), Harvard Institute of Economic Research, Havard University, Cambridge MA, 1974. |