Fairlie, Robert W.; Sundstrom, William A. - In: Industrial and Labor Relations Review 52 (1999) 2, pp. 252-270
Census data show that the ratio of black to white unemployment rates, currently in excess of 2:1, was small or nonexistent before 1940, widened dramatically during the 1940s and 1950s, and widened again in the 1980s. The authors decompose changes in the unemployment gap over the years 1880-1990...