BLACK-WHITE DIFFERENCES IN INCOME AND EMPLOYMENT

该项目将重点关注与种族差异有关的两个趋势， 经济福祉。 第一个是明显的倒退， 20世纪80年代，在黑人/白色工资差距的历史性缩小中。 的 其次是黑人青年就业率长期下降。 我们的工资计划有两个目标。 第一，主要是 描述性的，目标是汇编一个准确的画像的变化 在过去的二十年里，黑人的相对经济地位。 这 描述性的肖像将是全面的，说明敏感性 对收入的替代概念的任何评价（即，total money 收入，市场收益）和样本（即，所有男性工人，所有男性）。 我们的描述性工作还将研究相对经济的变化， 在重要次级类别中的地位（教育和经验）。 后 记录和比较在过去两年中发生的变化， 这些群体的相对收入状况，研究将进入 第二分析阶段。 我们的回归分析将使用1980年和 1990年人口普查和“1967-1992年CPS”， 黑人和白色男人的周薪。 该项目的第二个组成部分涉及一个问题， 黑人青年就业率持续下降。 该项目将 调查年轻黑人男性的就业趋势， 那些年轻的白人。 研究战略依赖于对 大型横截面人口普查和CPS数据文件的组合， 1940年至1992年的时间框架。 这些调查将用于研究 青年男子上学、就业、 失业，或者离开劳动力市场。 解释性的集合 探索的变量将包括个人的个人属性， 和他的家庭，劳动的时间和特殊性， 他所生活的市场，以及一系列政府机构的影响力， 政策和方案。

This project will focus on two trends related to racial differences in economic well-being. The first is an evident retrogression, during the 1980s, in the historical narrowing of the black/white wage gap. The second is a long-term decline in black youth employment. Our aim in the wage project will be two-fold. The first, largely descriptive, goal is to compile an accurate portrait of the changing relative economic status of black men during the last two decades. This descriptive portrait will be comprehensive, illustrating the sensitivity of any evaluation to alternative concepts of income (i.e., total money income, market earnings) and samples (i.e., all male workers, all men). our descriptive work will also examine changes in the relative economic status within important sub-classes (schooling and experience). After documenting and comparing the changes that have taken place in the relative income status of these groups, the research will move into the second analytical phase. Our regression analysis will use the 1980 and 1990 Censuses and the' 1967-1992 CPS' to examine the determinants of weekly wages of black and white men. The second component of the project deals with a problem of much longer duration-declining black youth employment. This project will investigate trends in the employment for young black males compared to those for young whites. The research strategy relies on the analysis of combinations of large cross-sectional Census and CPS data files that span the 1940-1992 time frame. These surveys will be used to study the interrelated decisions of young men to attend school, have a job, be unemployed, or remain out of the labor force. The sets of explanatory variables explored will range from personal attributes of the individual and his family, the temporal and special characteristics of the labor markets in which he lives, and the influence of a range OF governmental policies and programs.