ERIC Number: ED600049
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2019
Pages: 16
Abstractor: ERIC
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The Unequal Race for Good Jobs: How Whites Made Outsized Gains in Education and Good Jobs Compared to Blacks and Latinos. Executive Summary
Carnevale, Anthony P.; Strohl, Jeff; Gulish, Artem; Van Der Werf, Martin; Campbell, Kathryn Peltier
Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce
This is the executive summary for the report, "The Unequal Race for Good Jobs: How Whites Made Outsized Gains in Education and Good Jobs Compared to Blacks and Latinos." Between 1991 and 2016, White workers built on their past educational and economic privileges to attain bachelor's and graduate degrees in historically high numbers and consequently gained access to good jobs that demanded higher levels of education. As a group, White workers with bachelor's degrees and graduate degrees gained 10.6 million good jobs even as overall employment growth for White workers was modest: 1.9 million jobs. With the constantly growing demand for workers with postsecondary education and the disproportionate advantage that Whites have accrued in educational attainment. Black and Latino workers also sought and attained higher levels of education as a pathway to greater opportunity, but their gains have been far short of those of Whites. Black workers gained 1.9 million good jobs for workers with at least a bachelor's degree, while their employment increased by 4 million jobs overall; Latino workers gained 2.2 million good jobs for workers with at least a bachelor's degree even as their employment increased substantially, by 13.1 million jobs overall. [For the full report, see ED600048.]
Descriptors: Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Whites, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Employees, Racial Discrimination, Ethnicity, Racial Bias, Disproportionate Representation, Employment Level, Educational Attainment, Bachelors Degrees, High School Graduates, College Graduates, Job Skills, Wages, Industry, United States History
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Publication Type: Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education; High Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
Sponsor: JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Authoring Institution: Georgetown University, Center on Education and the Workforce
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