LAST HIRED, 1ST FIRED - UNEMPLOYMENT AND URBAN BLACK WORKERS DURING THE GREAT-DEPRESSION

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: SUNDSTROM, WA
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC HISTORY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-0507
• DOI: 10.1017/S0022050700010834
• 发表日期: 1992
• 页码: 415-429
• 关键词: labor

摘要

Throughout the Great Depression, the unemployment rates of blacks exceeded those of whites in urban areas of both North and South. Among men, this difference was largely due to racial differences in occupational status, whereas among women, unemployment rates were dramatically higher for blacks even within specific occupations. The occupational pattern of the unemployment gap suggests that labor market discrimination played a role, especially in unskilled service jobs.