Abstract
The Great Recession pushed millions of people out of the US labor force, and this chapter uses descriptive statistics to show that this push had a disparate impact on African American men. The chapter outlines the profound impact of the recession on the landscape of the American labor market, and focuses on changes in major labor force indicators for African American men. Since no demographic group in the USA was able to escape the impact of the downturn, in order to discern whether the recession’s impact on unemployment was more devastating for African American men than for other groups, changes in labor force indicators for other groups are examined and comparisons drawn. This chapter concludes with theories about discrimination as well as why some groups appear vulnerable to unemployment during economic downturns.
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Holder, M. (2017). African American Male Unemployment during the Great Recession in Comparison to Other Groups and Theoretical Considerations. In: African American Men and the Labor Market during the Great Recession. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56311-8_2
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