What Went Wrong? The Erosion of Relative Earnings and Employment Among Young Black Men in the 1980s
揭示了20世纪70年代中期至80年代年轻黑人男性与白人之间收入和就业差距的扩大，并分析了行业和地区就业变化、最低工资下降、工会衰落、劳动力供给变化以及犯罪率上升等因素对不同教育水平群体的差异化影响。
This paper shows a widening in black-white earnings and employment gaps among young men from the mid-1970s through the 1980s. Earnings gaps increased most among college graduates and in the Midwest, while gaps in employment-population rates grew most among dropouts. We attribute the differential widening to shifts in demand for subgroups due to shifting industry and regional employment, the falling real minimum wage and deunionization, the growing supply of black to white workers that was marked among college graduates, and to increased crime among dropouts. The different factors affecting subgroups highlight the economic diversity of black Americans.