The authors examine the effects of employment restructuring in the 1980s on white, black, and Hispanic men and women within a labor market segmentation framework. Cluster analysis is used to determine whether jobs can be grouped into a small number of relatively homogeneous clusters on the basis...

The earnings of low-skill workers have suffered substantial declines since the mid 1970 s. The conventional explanation is that a technology-induced increase in skill requirements has resulted in a growing mismatch between the skills demanded by firms and those supplied by the workforce:...

The rapid growth in wage inequality and the rising incidence of low earnings in the 1980's can be traced in large part to the sharp decline in the real hourly wages of lowskill men. This paper examines alternative explanations for this wage collapse. A widely accepted story is that this collapse...

This paper examines the effects of recent employment restructuring on young workers by race and sex. Detailed Census occupations are grouped into 10 job segments based on earnings, education and annual hours worked in 1979. Job segments in which young black men were most concentrated had the...