Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back … the considerable gains in employment rates it had achieved during the 1990s, with major contractions in manufacturing … employment being a prime contributor to the slump. The U.S. employment "sag" of the 2000s is widely recognized but poorly …

The employment rate of black men, and particularly of low-skill black men, fell precipitously from 1960 to 2000. At the … these trends in black employment and incarceration. Using data drawn from the 1960-2000 U.S. Censuses, we find a strong … correlation between immigration, black wages, black employment rates, and black incarceration rates. As immigrants …