The Review of Black Political Economy articles from September 1996

The Review of Black Political Economy archives from September 1996

The long-run impact of teenage work experience: a reexamination.
September 22, 1996... INTRODUCTION In recent years, concern among policy makers, business leaders and scholars about the declining economic status of non-college bound youth in the U.S. has heightened (William T. Grant Foundation [1988], Barton [1990], Commission...

"Place-not-race"?: the inadequacy of geography to address racial disparities.
September 22, 1996... SPACE AS A PANACEA FOR RACISM? Progressively through the mid-twentieth century urban inner-city communities have been crippled by industrial decentralization and "racialized" by Anglo flight to the suburbs. The result has been poverty-stricken...

Male and female earnings in the Caribbean economy of Barbados: a human capital perspective.
September 22, 1996... INTRODUCTION Among all developing countries, the Caribbean economy of Barbados consistently ranks in the elite group on the United Nations' Development Programme's index of human development.(1) An important reason for this is the substantial...

The causal relationship between African American fertility and female labor supply: policy implications.
September 22, 1996... INTRODUCTION It is well documented in the literature that African American (or black American) women tend to have relatively higher fertility than white women, even though it has declined precipitously in the past three decades (for the young...

Determinants of fertility: implications for the "new" federalism.
September 22, 1996... There have been major changes in U.S. family patterns. They include delayed marriage, increasing unmarried cohabitation, and unmarried childbearing. These changes have affected fertility rates. The objective of this article is to identify...

Commons-Mitchell-Myrdal-Polanyi Institutionalism: A Review of Inequality: Radical Institutionalist Views on Race, Gender, Class and Nation.
September 22, 1996... Introduction This book raises immediately issues of definition. What is meant by "radical," "institutionalist," "inequality"? This review is organized to address those issues. Left Radicalism in Economics Radicalism in economics has...