TY  - JOUR
AU  - Freeman,Richard B.
TI  - Have Black Labor Market Gains Post-1964 Been Permanent or Transitory?
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 751
PY  - 1981
Y2  - September 1981
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w0751
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w0751.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Richard B. Freeman
NBER
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA  02138
Tel: 617/868-3900
Fax: 617/868-2742
E-Mail: freeman@nber.org
AB  - One of the most important questions regarding black economic gains post-1964 is whether they are permanent or transitory. This study examines the relative economic progress of black cohorts and of individual black workers in longitudinal samples to evaluate the permanence of changes. It finds that the preponderance of evidence runs against the proposition that the post-1964 advances have bS2- transitory or illusory. Measured by earnings of workers and occupational attainment, blacks have continued to make significant progress in the 1970s. Measured by the increase in earnings of specific cohorts, black gains did not dissipate due to slow growth of earnings.
ER  -