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Stories Employers Tell : Race, Skill, and Hiring in America /

"Stories Employers Tell demonstrates that this conventional wisdom is incomplete. Racial discrimination is still a fundamental part of the explanation of labor market disadvantage. Drawing upon a wide-ranging survey of empolyers in Atlanta, Boston, Detroit, and Los Angeles, Philip Moss and Chri...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Moss, Philip I.
Autres auteurs: Tilly, Chris
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York : Russell Sage Foundation, 2001.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Racial inequality in the labor market: market forces or discrimination?
  • The scope of the study: data, methods, and the four cities
  • The skills employers seek
  • Employer perceptions of race and skill
  • Employers view the inner city / with Ivy Kennelly and Joleen Kirschenman
  • Hiring procedures and the role of formality
  • The moral of the tale: designing better labor market policies
  • Appendix A. Profiles of data sets used in this book
  • Appendix B. Descriptive statistics of variables.