The Review of Black Political Economy articles from March 1996

The Review of Black Political Economy archives from March 1996

What does the AFQT really measure: race, wages, schooling and the AFQT score. (Armed Forces Qualification Test)
March 22, 1996... INTRODUCTION Recent literature on the black-white wage gap shows that during the 1980s, the unadjusted gap expanded.(1) To document this "between-group" expansion, most studies use micro data from the Current Population Survey (March and...

The political economy of labor market discrimination: a classroom-friendly presentation of the theory.
March 22, 1996... Depending upon your point of view, economics is either blessed or cursed with many different theories of discrimination. The main neoclassical models are based on subjective prejudice and statistical discrimination. The alternatives offered by...

Black public colleges and universities as projects: how do they rank relative to white public colleges and universities?
March 22, 1996... INTRODUCTION In March of 1995, the United States District Court in Mississippi issued a remedial decree to resolve United States vs. Fordice.(1) The remedial decree includes provisions that could potentially result in the closure or merger of...

Labor force participation among low-income married women.
March 22, 1996... INTRODUCTION According to the findings of many cross-section studies of female labor supply, participation by married women is more responsive to changes in household income than participation by married men or single women who have never...

Persistent consequences of initial discrimination: young black workers in the 1960s.
March 22, 1996... INTRODUCTION Since Myrdal's(1) publication of An American Dilemma, a great deal of attention has been focused on the causes and consequences of labor market discrimination. This interest was intensified by Becker's work, which spawned a vast...

Race and municipal bond ratings in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
March 22, 1996... INTRODUCTION Municipal governments across the United States depend to a great extent on long-term borrowing and debt to finance capital projects within their jurisdictions. As the federal government began to shift more responsibilities to...

The effect of energy conservation tax credits on minority household housing improvements.
March 22, 1996... INTRODUCTION This article examines whether the state and federal tax credits allowed to households affect their energy-conservation improvements activity. Tax credits, in general, are a lively public policy instrument in the current political...

What employers want: job prospects for less-educated workers.
March 22, 1996... The problems of urban unemployment and low wages among less-educated, and especially minority, workers have been the focus of a large body of research over the last three decades, including substantial work in recent years (e.g., Ihlanfeldt,...