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Race and the Shifting Burden of Job Displacement : 1982-93
Fairlie, Robert W.; Kletzer, Lori G. - 1998
Advances in the relative labor market position of black men stagnated in the 1980s, after nearly four decades of steady improvement. The structural change of the early 1980s was particularly costly for black men. Past research shows that black men faced a substantially higher risk of job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014075035
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Race and the Shifting Burden of Job Displacement : 1982-93
Fairlie, Robert W.; Kletzer, Lori G. - 1998
Advances in the relative labor market position of black men stagnated in the 1980s, after nearly four decades of steady improvement. The structural change of the early 1980s was particularly costly for black men. Past research shows that black men faced a substantially higher risk of job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014095647
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Why Did so Many African-American Men Lose Their Jobs in the 1980s? An Analysis of Black/White Differences in Job Displacement
Fairlie, Robert W.; Kletzer, Lori G. - 2008
Using data from the 1984 to 1992 Displaced Worker Surveys, we find that black men fared much worse than white men at every stage of job displacement. For the period 1982 to 1991, black men experienced rates of job displacement that were 30 percent higher, reemployment rates that were 30 percent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014117890
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The Emergence, Persistence, and Recent Widening of the Racial Unemployment Gap
Fairlie, Robert W.; Sundstrom, William A. - 2009
Census data show that the ratio of black to white unemployment rates, currently in excess of 2:1, was small or non … in the unemployment gap over the years 1880-1990 to identify the separate contributions of changes in observable worker … the relative educational status of black workers would have narrowed the unemployment gap slightly, but demand shifts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014046692
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The Emergence, Persistence, and Recent Widening of the Racial Unemployment Gap
Fairlie, Robert W.; Sundstrom, William A. - 2009
The ratio of black to white unemployment rates is currently in excess of 2 to 1. We show that the racial unemployment …. Using available U.S. Census data for the years 1880 to 1990, we decompose changes over time in the unemployment gap to … black workers would have narrowed the unemployment gap slightly, but demand shifts adverse to black worker more that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014032218
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Racial differences in labor market transitions and the Great Recession
Couch, Kenneth A.; Fairlie, Robert W.; Xu, Huanan - 2016
Labor force transitions are empirically examined using CPS data matched across months from 1996-2012 for Hispanics, African-Americans and whites. Transition probabilities are contrasted prior to the Great Recession and afterwards. Estimates indicate that minorities are more likely to be fired as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011432552
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Racial differences in labor market transitions and the Great Recession
Couch, Kenneth A.; Fairlie, Robert W.; Xu, Huanan - 2016
Labor force transitions are empirically examined using CPS data matched across months from 1996-2012 for Hispanics, African-Americans and whites. Transition probabilities are contrasted prior to the Great Recession and afterwards. Estimates indicate that minorities are more likely to be fired as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452742
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A Community College Instructor like Me: Race and Ethnicity Interactions in the Classroom
Fairlie, Robert W.; Hoffmann, Florian; Oreopoulos, Philip - Vancouver School of Economics - 2011
This paper uses detailed administrative data from one of the largest community colleges in the United States to quantify the extent to which academic performance depends on students being of similar race or ethnicity to their instructors. To address the concern of endogenous sorting, we use both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009350698
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Jobs Lost, Jobs Regained : An Analysis of Black/White Differences in Job Displacement in the 1980s
Fairlie, Robert W.; Kletzer, Lori G. - 1999
Over the period 1982 to 1991, black men were considerably more likely to experience job displacement than were white men, and following displacement, the likelihood of re-employment was substantially lower for black men. Using data from the 1984 to 1992 Displaced Worker Surveys, we find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014206840
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Jobs Lost, Jobs Regained : An Analysis of Black/White Differences in Job Displacement in the 1980s
Fairlie, Robert W.; Kletzer, Lori G. - 1997
Over the period 1982 to 1991, black men were considerably more likely to experience job displacement than were white men, and following displacement, the likelihood of reemployment was substantially lower for black men. Using data from the 1984 to 1992 Displaced Worker Surveys, we find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014089114