1. See JohnBound and Richard B.Freeman “Black Economic Progress: Erosion of the Post-1965 Gains in the 1980’s?” inThe Question of Discrimination, StevenShulman and WilliamDarity, Jr., (eds.) (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1989); John H. Donohue and James Heckman, “Continuous Versus Episodic Change: The Impact of Civil Rights Policy on the Economic Status of Blacks,”Journal of Economic Literature, XXIX (December 1991).
2. Gerald D.Jaynes, “The Labor Market Status of Black Americans: 1939–1985,”The Journal of Economic Perspectives, 4 (4) (1990), 9–24.
3. Some recent work does examine racial differences in male teenage unemployment rates, e.g., Harry J.Holzer, “Black Youth Nonemployment: Duration and Job Search,” inThe Black Youth Employment Crisis, Richard B.Freeman and Harry J. Holzer (eds.) (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1986).
4. Robert Hall, “Turnover in the Labor Force,”Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 3 (1972); Stephen T. Marston, “Employment Instability and High Unemployment Rates,”Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 1 (1976); Clair Vickery, “The Impact of Turnover on Group Unemployment Rates,”Review of Economics and Statistics, 59 (November 1977).
5. Robert Hall, “Turnover in the Labor Force,”Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 3 (1972); Stephen T. Marston, “Employment Instability and High Unemployment Rates,”Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 1 (1976); Clair Vickery, “The Impact of Turnover on Group Unemployment Rates,”Review of Economics and Statistics, 59 (November 1977).