The Review of Black Political Economy articles from March 1995

The Review of Black Political Economy archives from March 1995

An empirical test of the cultural capital hypothesis.
March 22, 1995... INTRODUCTION AND CRITICAL BACKGROUND A wide range of theories have been advanced to explain the steadily deteriorating quality of life in U.S. inner-city communities. Yet one perspective - the so-called cultural capital hypothesis - has held...

Racial differences in the unemployment response to structural changes in local labor markets.
March 22, 1995... INTRODUCTION In recent years increasing attention has been devoted to the phenomenon of job displacement created, in part, by new patterns of intra- and international firm mobility.(1) Many of the early studies focused on the mid-1980s for two...

The demographics of trade-affected services and manufacturing workers (1987-1990): a comparative analysis.
March 22, 1995... INTRODUCTION Although trade liberalization policies are motivated by a desire to raise world incomes, they are also associated with adjustment pressures. Within the context of current U.S. initiatives to liberalize world trade in goods and...

Consumer discrimination, duopoly, and black firm entry: the welfare effect of subsidies.
March 22, 1995... Firm entry, to the extent that it increases market output and lowers market prices, can increase social welfare. In standard Cournot models of industry competition, Von Weisacker, Perry, and Mankiw and Whinston show that it is possible to have...

Look before you leap: the franchise route to self-employment.
March 22, 1995... Differentials in various aspects of African American/white involvement in the economy are often put forth as evidence that a problem of some sort exists: proposed solutions to the problem often entail advocating strategies to close (or narrow)...

Characteristics of black-owned corporations in Atlanta: with comments on the SMOBE undercount. (Survey of Minority-Owned Business Enterprises)
March 22, 1995... Four decades ago, E. Franklin Frazier called black business ownership a "social myth" that was propagated by Booker T. Washington and the black middle class. This class, he argued, was simply indulging in fantasy to escape its feelings of...

Economic Restructuring and Emerging Patterns of Industrial Relations.
March 22, 1995... Economic Restructuring and Emerging Patterns of Industrial Relations is a book of nine case studies on the role that unions have and should play in the economic restructuring process. In discussing this role the authors focus on the relationship...

Labor Divided: Race and Ethnicity in United States Labor Struggles, 1835-1960.
March 22, 1995... This fascinating and insightful book is a wonderful resource for students of labor history. Each chapter is a carefully researched and well-written case study of the labor struggles of an ethnic group and provides rich detail about the interplay...