The Black Youth Employment Crisis

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Acknowledgments
I. The Black Youth Employment Crisis
The Black Youth Employment Crisis: Summary of Findings
Richard B. Freeman and Harry J. Holzer
II. The Nature and Pattern of Change
1. Black Youth Nonemployment: Duration and Job Search
Harry J. Holzer
Comment: Ronald G. Ehrenberg
2. Transitions between Employment and Nonemployment
John Ballen and Richard B. Freeman
Comment: Gary Chamberlain
3. Layoffs, Discharges, and Youth Unemployment
Peter Jackson and Edward Montgomery
Comment: James L. Medoff
III. Causes: Demand
4. The Spatial Mismatch Hypothesis: Are There Teenage Jobs Missing in the Ghetto?
David T. Ellwood
Comment: Jonathan S. Leonard
5. The Demographic Determinants of the Demand for Black Labor
George J. Borjas
Comment: Daniel S. Hamermesh
6. Brothers of a Different Color: A Preliminary Look at Employer Treatment of White and Black Youth
Jerome Culp and Bruce H. Dunson
Comment: Paul Osterman
7. Do Better Jobs Make Better Workers? Absenteeism from Work Among Inner-City Black Youths
Ronald Ferguson and Randall Filer
Comment: Charles Brown
IV. Causes: Supply
8. Market Incentives for Criminal Behavior
W. Kip Viscusi
Comment: James W. Thompson and James Cataldo
9. Who Escapes? The Relation of Churchgoing and Other Background Factors to the Socioeconomic Performance of Black Male Youths from Inner-City Poverty Tracts
Richard B. Freeman
10. The Effects of Attitudes and Aspirations on the Labor Supply of Young Men
Linda Datcher-Loury and Glenn C. Loury
Comment: Michael J. Piore
11. Do Welfare Programs Affect the Schooling and Work Patterns of Young Black Men?
Robert Lerman
Comment: Samuel L. Meyers, Jr.
Appendix: NBER-Mathematica Survey of Inner-City Black Youth: An Analysis of the Undercount of Older Youths
John Bound
List of Contributors
Author Index
Subject Index