Volume 7, Number 4 (Fall) 1972
Adams, Arvil V. 1972. "Black-White Occupational Differentials in Southern Metropolitan Employment." Journal of Human Resources 7(4): 500-517.
This article examines occupational distributions in 1966 of blacks and whites, by sex, in 25 southern metropolitan areas. Its basic premise is that a set of variations over which employers exercise little control--including education, age, economic growth, skill requirements, industry composition, and market size--contributes heavily to explaining blacks' and whites' relative occupational distribution. This premise is supported by empirical results which suggest that the occupational choice of blacks is all too often limited by institutional forms of discrimination that go beyond overt actions of employers. The results further indicate that structural forces determining blacks' and whites' relative occupational position differ by sex.
The author is Research Associate, Center for Human Resource Research, Ohio State University. Research for this paper was conducted while the author was Assistant Professor of Economics, The University of Kentucky. This paper is prepared as part of a study of Negro employment in the South, directed by F. Ray Marshall, University of Texas. This report on a manpower research project was prepared under a contract with the Manpower Administration, U.S. Department of Labor, under the authority of the Manpower Development and Training Act. Organizations and individuals undertaking such projects under the Government sponsorship are encouraged to express their own judgment freely. Therefore, points of view or opinions stated in this article do not necessarily represent the official position or policy of the Department of Labor. Reproduction in whole or in part permitted for any purposes of the U.S. Government.
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