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Galster, George C.; Keeney, W. Mark – Urban Affairs Quarterly, 1988
A cross-sectional simultaneous equation model is specified whereby metropolitan-wide levels of racial residential segregation, housing discrimination, interracial occupational dissimilarities, and Black/White mean incomes are endogenous. Results support the hypothesis of mutually causal interrelationships among these phenomena. Results of policy…
Descriptors: Blacks, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Income, Labor Market

Lafer, Gordon – Urban Affairs Quarterly, 1992
Argues that current job-training policy in New York City is based on a false premise. Poor education is a serious problem, but the most important failure, the one on which economic policy must focus, is the failure of employers to provide an adequate number of jobs at living wages. (SLD)
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Educational Quality, Employees, Employment Opportunities