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Title: Rising Black/White Disparities in Job Displacement, 1979–2015

Citation Type: Conference Paper

Publication Year: 2019

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Abstract: Research increasingly attends to economic insecurity—the chances of losing what one has—alongside material deprivation. An important source of insecurity is job displacement (layoffs). Surprisingly little is known about the racial patterning of job displacement in the United States, despite sustained attention to racial disparities in other economic outcomes. Here, we provide the first documentation of black/white inequality in displacements occurring from 1979 to 2015. We show that, for both men and women, blacks are nearly always more likely to be displaced than whites, but that the black/white disparity has generally grown over time. In particular, excess black displacement was notably low during the 1990s but had nearly doubled for women, and nearly tripled for men, by the 2010-2015 period. The rising racial inequality in displacement occurred for workers with and without a college degree, and during the 1990s, being black replaced lack of college as the better predictor of displacement.

Url: http://paa2019.populationassociation.org/abstracts/193234

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Authors: Wrigley-Field, Elizabeth; Seltzer, Nathan

Conference Name: PAA 2019

Publisher Location: Austin, TX

Data Collections: IPUMS CPS

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Race and Ethnicity

Countries: United States