Occupational Gains of Black Women since the 1964 Civil Rights Act: Long-Term or Episodic?

American Economic Review

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 311-314

  Fosu, Augustin Kwasi ^a  

^a OAKLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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