Explaining the racial unemployment gap: race, region, and the employment status of men, 1940

Industrial and Labor Relations Review

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 460-477

  Sundstrom, William A ^a  

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DOI: 10.1177/001979399705000305     Document Type: Article

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