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Black males left behind / edited by Ronald B. Mincy.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Washington, DC : Urban Institute Press, c2006.Description: xvii, 326 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0877667276 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Contents:
Left behind: less-educated young black men left behind in the economic boom of the 1990s / Ronald B. Mincy, Charles E. Lewis, Jr., and Wen-Jui Han -- Trends in the employment outcomes of young black men, 1979-2000 / Harry J. Holzer and Paul Offner -- Forecasting the labor market prospects of less-educated Americans / William M. Rodgers III -- How do employer perceptions of crime and incarceration affect the employment prospects of less-educated young black men? / Harry J. Holzer, Steven Raphael, and Michael A. Stoll -- Are less-educated women crowding less-educated men out of the labor market? / Rebecca M. Blank and Jonah Gelbach -- Did spatial mismatch affect male labor force participation during the 1990s expansion? / John A. Foster-Bey, Jr. -- Low-income black men on work opportunity, work resources, and job training programs / Alford A. Young, Jr. -- The availability and use of workforce development programs among less-educated youth / Demetra Smith Nightingale and Elaine Sorensen -- Improving public policies to increase the income and employment of low-income nonresident fathers / Wendell Primus -- Poor fathers and public policy: what is to be done? / Ron Haskins -- Toward a fruitful policy discourse about less-educated young men / Hillard Pouncy.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Left behind: less-educated young black men left behind in the economic boom of the 1990s / Ronald B. Mincy, Charles E. Lewis, Jr., and Wen-Jui Han -- Trends in the employment outcomes of young black men, 1979-2000 / Harry J. Holzer and Paul Offner -- Forecasting the labor market prospects of less-educated Americans / William M. Rodgers III -- How do employer perceptions of crime and incarceration affect the employment prospects of less-educated young black men? / Harry J. Holzer, Steven Raphael, and Michael A. Stoll -- Are less-educated women crowding less-educated men out of the labor market? / Rebecca M. Blank and Jonah Gelbach -- Did spatial mismatch affect male labor force participation during the 1990s expansion? / John A. Foster-Bey, Jr. -- Low-income black men on work opportunity, work resources, and job training programs / Alford A. Young, Jr. -- The availability and use of workforce development programs among less-educated youth / Demetra Smith Nightingale and Elaine Sorensen -- Improving public policies to increase the income and employment of low-income nonresident fathers / Wendell Primus -- Poor fathers and public policy: what is to be done? / Ron Haskins -- Toward a fruitful policy discourse about less-educated young men / Hillard Pouncy.