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ERIC Number: EJ344746
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1986
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Labor Market Structure, Intragenerational Mobility, and Discrimination: Black Male Advancement out of Low-Paying Occupations, 1962-1973
Power, Marshall I.
American Sociological Review, v51 n5 p650-59 Oct 1986
Comparison of intragenerational mobility of black and white men shows the following: (1) black upward mobility is less frequent and more restricted; (2) blacks within the public sector have substantial rates of upward mobility to nonmanagerial positions; and (3) discrimination against blacks in the labor market has not disappeared. (Author/PS)
Descriptors: Black Employment, Employment Patterns, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Government Employees, Industrial Structure, Males, Managerial Occupations, Occupational Clusters, Occupational Mobility, Racial Discrimination, Whites
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - General; Numerical/Quantitative Data
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Language: English
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