Contents
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction - Robert Cherry and William M. Rodgers III
Part I: Employment and the Boom
Chapter 1. The Effect of Tighter Labor Markets on Unemployment of Hispanics and African Americans: The 1990s Experience - Cordelia W. Reimers
Chapter 2. Area Economic Conditions and the Labor-Market Outcomes of Young Men in the 1990s Expansion - Richard B. Freeman and William M. Rodgers III
Chapter 3. Black-White Employment Differential in a Tight Labor Market - Chinhui Juhn
Commentary I. Urban Racial Unemployment Differentials: The New York Case - Gregor E. DeFreitas
Part II: Racial Discrimination and the Boom
Chapter 4. How Labor-Market Tightness Affects Employer Attitudes and Actions Toward Black Job Applicants: Evidence from Employer Surveys - Philip Moss and Chris Tilly
Chapter 5. Exclusionary Practices and Glass-Ceiling Effects Across Regions: What Does the Current Expansion Tell Us? - Heather Boushey and Robert Cherry
Chapter 6. What Do We Need to Explain About African American Unemployment? - William E. Spriggs and Rhonda M. Williams
Commentary II. In Good Times and Bad: Discrimination and Unemployment - Cecilia A. Conrad
Part III: Social Dimensions of the Boom
Chapter 7. Looking at the Glass Ceiling: Do White Men Receive Higher Returns to Tenure and Experience? - Joyce P. Jacobsen and Laurence M. Levin
Chapter 8. Barriers to the Employment of Welfare Recipients - Sandra Danziger, Mary Corcoran, Sheldon Danziger, Colleen Heflin, Ariel Kalil, Judith Levine, Daniel Rosen, Kristin Seefeldt, Kristine Siefert, and Richard Tolman
Chapter 9. The Impact of Labor Market Prospects on Incarceration Rates - William Darity Jr. and Samuel L. Myers Jr.
Commentary III. Glass Ceilings, Iron Bars, Income Floors - Sanders Korenman
Index