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Title: Studies of Occupation Mobility for Black and White Men
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Kasten, Richard A. |
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Studies of Occupation Mobility for Black and White Men Ph.D. Dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1975 Cohort(s): Older Men Publisher: UMI - University Microfilms, Bell and Howell Information and Learning Keyword(s): Mobility; Racial Differences This thesis consists of two studies of the occupational distributions of black and white males. In the first part the occupational success of older men was studied to determine if the civil rights movement and the low unemployment at the end of the 1960s had any effect on the relative occupational success of older black males. It was found that there was little improvement in the treatment of these men and that blacks did not fare as well in the labor market as whites with identical characteristics. Only a small part of the differential between the occupation distributions of blacks and whites would be eliminated if the mobility probabilities estimated for 1969 were maintained indefinitely. About 40 percent of the gap which would remain cannot be explained by blacks' poor educations and unstable marriages. The second part of the thesis is a discussion of how rapidly the occupation gap between black and white men would narrow if blacks and whites with the same characteristics had identical distributions of occupations. A model of education, occupations, and demography was estimated and used to project the 1970 population and its descendants to the year 2000. It was found that nearly half of the gap will be closed by 1990, but, since blacks, especially blacks from broken families, are predicted to get less education than whites from similar backgrounds, the occupation distributions of blacks will remain below the white distribution as long as black educational and demographic probabilities remain at their 1969 levels. |
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Kasten, Richard A. Studies of Occupation Mobility for Black and White Men. Ph.D. Dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1975. |