What went wrong? the erosion of relative earnings and employment among young black men in the 1980s

Quarterly Journal of Economics

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 1992, Pages 201-232

  Bound, John ^a   Freeman, Richard B ^a  

^a NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLACK POPULATION; ECONOMIC POSITION; EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY; RACIAL DIFFERENCE; RELATIVE INCOME; WAGE DIFFERENTIAL;

USA;

EID: 0027083797     PISSN: 00335533     EISSN: 15314650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2118327     Document Type: Article

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