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Title: Economic Contractions and Racial Differentials in Male Job Mobility
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Rosenberg, Sam |
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Economic Contractions and Racial Differentials in Male Job Mobility Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economics and Society 26,3 (September 1987): 291-295. Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-232X.1987.tb00714.x/abstract Cohort(s): Older Men Publisher: Institute of Industrial Relations, University of California, Berkeley Keyword(s): Business Cycles; Duncan Index; Mobility; Mobility, Occupational; Racial Differences; Socioeconomic Status (SES) Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Using data drawn from the National Longitudinal Surveys, the effects of the economic contraction of 1969-1975 on the occupational mobility of older black and white male workers was examined. The sample contained 440 black and 1,041 white males who: (1) reported a current occupation, (2) were not enrolled in school, and (3) indicated their major activity during the survey week was either "working" or "with a job but not at work." It was limited to the years 1966, 1969, and 1975. Occupational standing was measured with the one-digit Census occupation and the Duncan socioeconomic status index (SES), an ordinal prestige scale assigning a rank between 0-97 to each of the 3-digit 1960 Census occupations. Overall, in 1969, whites held positions with an average SES value of 42.83, while those held by blacks averaged 21.91. The average SES scores were virtually the same in 1969 and 1975. Although many workers changed positions, these fluctuations balanced out. Accumulated evidence concerning two economic contractions in the early 1980s suggests that black men were more negatively affected by the economic conditions than were white men. Moreover, black men who lost their jobs were less likely to locate other positions than white men. [ABI/INFORM] |
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Rosenberg, Sam. "Economic Contractions and Racial Differentials in Male Job Mobility." Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economics and Society 26,3 (September 1987): 291-295.
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