Changes in Employment Prospects for Black Males

Frank Levy

1980, No. 2

Two general assessments of black economic progress prevail in the
United States today. Prominent economic studies emphasize a converging
trend in the earnings of blacks and of whites. Among these studies,
Richard Freeman’s description of a “virtual collapse in traditional discriminatory
patterns in the labor market” makes the point most sharply.
James Smith and Finis Welch, although more cautious, reach a similar
conclusion.

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