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In the Winter 1999 issue of the Journal of Labor Research (“Prevailing Wage Laws and Black Employment in the Construction Industry”), I reported a significant inverse relationship between the strength of states’ prevailing wage laws and the prospects for black employment in the construction industry. My conclusions are challenged by Azari-Rad and Philips in “ Race and Prevailing Wage Laws in the Construction Industry,” in this issue. This reply responds with new evidence reinforcing the previously asserted relationship: black employment ratios in construction are better in states that don’t have prevailing wage laws than in states that do, and they lessen as the strength of those laws increase. Furthermore, prevailing wage law repeal has apparently benefited black employment opportunities in the construction industries of the states where it has occurred.
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Thieblot, A.J. “Prevailing Wage Laws and Black Employment in the Construction Industry.” Journal of Labor Research 20 (Winter 1999): 155–59.
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Thieblot, A.J. Race and prevailing wage laws in the construction industry: Reply to Azari-Rad and Philips. J Labor Res 24, 169–177 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12122-003-1036-8
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12122-003-1036-8