Why opportunity isn't knocking: Racial inequality and the demand for labor

Urban Inequality: Evidence From Four Cities

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 444-495

  Moss, Philip ^a   Tilly, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

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