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Title: Causes of the Racial Differences in Unemployment Rates among Male Youth
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1. 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.
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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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.