TY  - JOUR
AU  - Bound,John
AU  - Holzer,Harry J.
TI  - Demand Shifts, Population Adjustments, and Labor Market Outcomes during the 1980s
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 5685
PY  - 1996
Y2  - July 1996
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w5685
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w5685.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
John Bound
Department of Economics
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1220
Tel: 734/998-7149
Fax: 734/998-7415
E-Mail: jbound@umich.edu

Harry J. Holzer
Georgetown University
3520 Prospect Street NW,4th Floor
Washington, DC  20007
E-Mail: hjh4@georgetown.edu
AB  - In this paper we explore the effects of labor demand shifts and population adjustments across metropolitan areas on the employment and earnings of various demographic groups during the 1980s.  Results show that, although earnings and employment deteriorated for less-education and black males in most areas in the 1980s, there was a good deal of geographic variation in the magnitudes of these changes.  Shifts in labor demand across local areas contributed to this variation, and had greater relative impacts on the earnings and employment of these demographic groups.  We also find that popu- lation shifts across areas, presumably due to migation, at least partially offset the effects of these demand shifts.  But less-education workers showed substantially lower population adjustments in response to these demand shifts. These limited supply responses apparently contributed importantly to relatively greater deterioration of employment and earnings of these groups in declining areas during the 1980s.
ER  -