Henry Ford's Plan for the American Suburb: Dearborn and Detroit. By Heather B. Barrow. Dekalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2015. Pp. xii, 216. $38, cloth
In: The journal of economic history, Band 76, Heft 1, S. 274-275
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In: The journal of economic history, Band 76, Heft 1, S. 274-275
ISSN: 1471-6372
In: Enterprise & society: the international journal of business history, Band 11, Heft 4, S. 841-844
ISSN: 1467-2235
In: The journal of economic history, Band 66, Heft 4, S. 1100-1102
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In: The journal of economic history, Band 65, Heft 2
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In: Social science history: the official journal of the Social Science History Association, Band 29, Heft 2, S. 241-267
ISSN: 1527-8034
This article examines how residence in racially segregated neighborhoods affected the job prospects of African American men in the late 1910s. The analysis focuses on one northern city—Cincinnati, Ohio. The evidence comes from a new longitudinal dataset containing information on individuals linked from the 1920 census to World War I selective service registration records. The results indicate that black male residents of Cincinnati's west end ghetto held occupations similar to those of black men in other Cincinnati neighborhoods and experienced similar rates of upward occupational mobility. Surprisingly, black men in the west end experienced lower rates of downward occupational mobility than did black men in other parts of the city.
In: The journal of economic history, Band 62, Heft 3
ISSN: 1471-6372
In: Social science history: the official journal of the Social Science History Association, Band 26, Heft 3, S. 475-502
ISSN: 1527-8034
The economic history of African American workers since 1940 has been marked by alternating episodes of progress and stagnation. Sharp gains in relative incomes during the 1940s were followed by little change in this measure in the 1950s. Renewed progress from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s was followed by a new period of stagnation and even decline in relative pay in the 1980s and early 1990s. The important episodes of progress were to a great degree driven by changes on the demand side of the labor market: rapid growth in labor demand—especially for blue-collar workers—during WorldWar II and the effect of new antidiscrimination policies on the demand for black labor after 1965 (Donohue and Heckman 1991; Jaynes andWilliams 1989: 294–96).
In: The journal of economic history, Band 61, Heft 2, S. 557-559
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In: Explorations in economic history: EEH, Band 38, Heft 1, S. 147-165
ISSN: 0014-4983
In: The journal of economic history, Band 60, Heft 4, S. 1169-1170
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In: The journal of economic history, Band 58, Heft 3, S. 911-913
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In: Explorations in economic history: EEH, Band 35, Heft 3, S. 272-295
ISSN: 0014-4983
In: Social science history: the official journal of the Social Science History Association, Band 19, Heft 1, S. 31-62
ISSN: 1527-8034
Recent major works on long-term racial inequality in the labor market revolve around competing hypotheses concerning the importance of human capital factors (Smith and Welch 1989) and government policy (Donohue and Heckman 1991) in promoting black advance. There is, however, another line of thinking which emphasizes the importance of experimentation and "demand-side learning": employers' gaining access to accurate information about the abilities of black workers and adjusting their beliefs in accordance with this information.
In: The journal of economic history, Band 54, Heft 2, S. 358-381
ISSN: 1471-6372
The gap between the mean wages of black men and white men in the United States narrowed substantially between 1940 and 1950. There was, however, almost no change in this wage gap between 1950 and 1960. Some of this discontinuity in the path of black progress can be explained by general changes in the wage structure—wage compression in the 1940s and slight expansion in the 1950s. However, most of the gains of the 1940s were driven by race-specific factors, including increasing relative wages controlling for worker characteristics. These race-specific gains ceased in the 1950s.
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