Black men left behind
By: edited by Ronald B. Mincy.
Contributors: Mincy, Ronald B.
Publisher: Urban Institute Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
Subjects: African Americans -- Employment.; Men -- Employment -- United States.; Blue collar workers -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Less-educated young black men left behind in the economic boom of the 1990s / Ronald B. Mincy, Charles E. Lewis, Jr., and Wen-Jui Han; title: Trends in the employment outcomes of young black men, 1979-2000 / Harry J. Holzer and Paul Offner; title: Forecasting the labor market prospects of less-educated Americans / William M. Rodgers III; title: How do employer perceptions of crime and incarceration affect the employment prospects of less-educated young black men? / Harry J. Holzer, Steven Raphael, and Michael A. Stoll; title: Are less-educated women crowding less-educated men out of the labor market? / Rebecca M. Blank and Jonah Gelbach; title: Did spatial mismatch affect male labor force participation during the 1990s expansion? / John A. Foster-Bey, Jr.; title: Low-income black men on work opportunity, work resources, and job training programs / Alford A. Young, Jr.; title: The availability and use of workforce development programs among less-educated youth / Demetra Smith Nightingale and Elaine Sorensen; title: Improving public policies to increase the income and employment of low-income nonresident fathers / Wendell Primus; title: Poor fathers and public policy : what is to be done? / Ron Haskins; title: Toward a fruitful policy discourse about less-educated young men / Hillard Pouncy.