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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New York :
Russell Sage Foundation,
2001.
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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.