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Black and white unemployment: The dynamics of the differential

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  1. In a pioneering study, Harry Gilman examines the cyclical variability of the relative incidence of black and white unemployment in “The White/Non-White Unemployment Differential”, in Mark Perlman, ed.,Human Resources in the Urban Economy (Washington, D.C., Resources for the Future, Inc., 1963), pp. 75–113. See also Curtis L. Gilroy, Investment in Human Capital and the Nonwhite-White Unemployment Differential, unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, State University of New York (Binghamton), 1973.

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  2. This procedure was suggested by Paul O. Flaim who utilized it in an unpublished Bureau of Labor Statistics analysis, “The Negro-White Unemployment Relationship,” March 1970.

  3. SeeBlack Americans, a chartbook, Bulletin 1699 (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1971); Gloria P. Green,Employment in Perspective: The Negro Employment Situation, Report 391 (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1971); andThe Social and Economic Status of the Black Population in the United States, 1972, Current Population Reports, Series P-23, No. 46 (Bureau of the Census, 1973) and similar Census reports in previous years.

  4. See, for example, Gary S. Becker,The Economics of Discrimination (Chicago, 1967); Harry Gilman, “Economic Discrimination and Unemployment,”American Economic Review, December 1965, pp. 1077–1096; Ralph E. Smith and Charles C. Holt, “A Job Search-Turnover Analysis of the Black-White Unemployment Ratio”, in Industrial Relations Research Association,Proceedings of the Twenty-Third Annual Winter Meeting, December 1970, pp. 76–86; Lester Thurow,Poverty and Discrimiation (Washington, The Brookings Institution, 1969).

  5. See Harry J. Gilman, ‘The White/Non-white Unemployment Differential,” p. 92.

  6. James Tobin, “Improving the Economic Status of the Negro”,Daedulus, Fall 1965, p. 406.

  7. See, for example, Paul M. Ryscavage, “Impact of Higher Unemployment of Major Labor Force Groups,”Monthly Labor Review, March 1970, pp. 21–25; Robert A. McMillan, “What Happens When the Unemployment Rate Changes?,”Economic Review, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, June–July 1972, pp. 3–16; Vladimir Stoickov, “Increasing Structural Unemployment Re-examined,”Industrial and Labor Relations Review, April 1966, pp. 368–376; Comment by Arthur Butler, “Identifying Structural Unemployment,” and Reply by Stoickov inIndustrial and Labor Relations Review, April 1967, pp. 441–446; and Lester Thurow, “The Changing Structure of Unemployment: An Econometric Study,”Review of Economics and Statistics, May 1965, pp. 137–149.

  8. See Malcolm S. Cohen and Wiliam H. Gruber, “Variability by Skill in cyclical Unemployment”,Monthly Labor Review, August 1970, pp. 8–11.

  9. See Gilman, “The White/Non-White Unemployment Differential”, pp. 90–92.

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This article first appeared in theMonthly Labor Review, Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, Vol. 97, Number 2, February 1974.

The author was assisted by Roberta V. McKay in the preparation of this article.

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Gilroy, C.L. Black and white unemployment: The dynamics of the differential. Rev Black Polit Econ 4, 83–100 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03040677

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