Black Economic Progress after 1964: Who Has Gained and Why?

Richard B. Freeman

NBER Working Paper No. 282 (Also Reprint No. r0305)
Issued in October 1978
NBER Program(s):   LS

This study used three types of evidence to analyze the nature and cause of black economic progress in post-World War II years: aggregate evidence on the timing and incidence among skill groups of changes in the relative earnings or occupational position of blacks; cross-sectional evidence on the family background determinants of the socioeconomic achievement of blacks; and information from company personnel offices regarding personnel policies toward black (and other) workers affected by civil rights legislation.

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Published: Black Economic Progress after 1964: Who Has Gained and Why?, Richard B. Freeman, in Studies in Labor Markets (1981), University of Chicago Press

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