This report is part of a series of documents released in conjunction with the United Nations' International Decade for People of African Descent (2015 to 2024) and Black History Month. It aims to provide insight into some of the key socioeconomic characteristics of Canada's Black communities. The first report in this series titled "Diversity…

From 1880 to 1977, the overall picture of employment in New York State has been one of reasonable stability. Within this general stability there have been great changes in sectors of employment. Agricultural employment has declined steadily and dramatically. The level of manufacturing employment has increased from 1880 to 1910 and has remained…

Decomposes variance in black and white male labor force participation rates across metropolitan areas into: local labor market effects, labor force structure effects, and effects from the covariation between the two. Data from the 1990 Public Use Micro Sample show difference by race and suggest that most variation results from workers with similar…

While the business and social climate for Blacks in Chicago has generally deteriorated, there has been an increase in the number of Black elected and appointed political officials. However, some Blacks are appointed to failing enterprises abandoned by White officials and are likely to be blamed for the failure. (Author/MJL)

The labor market experience of individuals between their 18th and 30th birthdays were analyzed. Data from the Youth cohort of the National Longitudinal Surveys showed that, between the ages of 18 and 30, a typical individual had held 7.5 jobs and had 8.6 years of work experience. This suggested that workers between these ages experienced 3.4 years…

This paper investigates the influence of racial and ethnic composition of labor markets on earnings inequality among Black, Hispanic, Asian, and white men to determine whether the influence of minority regional concentration on earnings differs by educational level. Consistent with other studies, this analysis, based on the 1980 Public Use…

Using a developmental stages model, the extent and characteristics of manufacturing development in the nonmetropolitan South between 1940 and 1970 were examined. Focus was on whether industrialization comes in different phases and whether its impact on the rural poor varies during each phase. Nonmetro labor markets (counties more than 50 miles…

Sketches out a framework linking black labor market trends in the post World War II era to actual and potential changes in black family patterns. Summarizes selected scholarship and then provides a gender-specific analysis of the changing employment status of black Americans. Urgres that links be made between black family life and the political…

Presents the latest economic predictions from the Bureau of Labor Statistics including the labor force, gross national product, industrial employment, occupational employment, and issues and implications. (JOW)

The 1980 Census of the United States is used, first, to illustrate the serious lag in employment performance of young black men relative to young white men and, second, to test for the importance of demand-side causes of this lag. Aggregate data for 94 standard metropolitan statistical areas (SMSAs) contain data on the annual hours worked in 1979…

Federal and State employment data were examined in a study of the industrial, occupational, and job segmentation of Blacks, Hispanics, and Whites by sex in New York City's private sector. Primary focus was placed on the effects of the city's growing service-oriented economy on the employment patterns of Blacks and Hispanics. The study found that…

Black workers have been moving up the occupational scale in recent years, away from the labor and service occupations and toward white-collar, craftsmen, and operative jobs. In 1960, two in every five black workers were in white-collar, craftsmen, or operative occupations. By 1970, more than half were in such jobs. These occupations are less…

Underemployment is another indicator of nonmetropolitan labor's disadvantaged circumstances. Yearly employment transitions during 1968 and 1993, show that compared to urban counterparts, adequately employed nonmetro workers were more likely to become underemployed; the nonmetro underemployed were less likely to become adequately employed; and…

Data assembled from the sequence of Current Population Survey (CPS) tenure supplements for 1973, 1978, 1981, 1983, 1987, and 1991 were analyzed along with demographic characteristics and other variables available from the general CPS to identify changes in job retention rates in the United States throughout the 1980s. The analysis was based on…

Not only is the official black unemployment rate 2.5 times higher than that of whites, but a significantly greater percentage of the white population is employed compared with blacks (61.6 percent compared with 54.2 percent). Evidence suggests that the real rate of unemployment and underemployment among blacks is 23.5 percent. The situation is…