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What Explains Black Employment Dynamics?

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  • Karl David Boulware
  • Kenneth N. Kuttner

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This paper investigates the proximate causes of excessively cyclical employment growth and persistently high unemployment among Black workers, relative to White workers. Using data from the Quarterly Workforce Indicators and Job-to-Job Flows, we find that the concentration of Black workers in highly cyclical industries cannot account for the excess cyclicality; rather, Black employment tends to be more volatile regardless of industry. The high level and excessive cyclicality of unemployment among Blacks compared to Whites can be traced to lower job finding rates overall and higher and more cyclical separation rates in most industries.

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  • Karl David Boulware & Kenneth N. Kuttner, 2024. "What Explains Black Employment Dynamics?," AEA Papers and Proceedings, American Economic Association, vol. 114, pages 191-195, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:aea:apandp:v:114:y:2024:p:191-95
    DOI: 10.1257/pandp.20241125
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    JEL classification:

    • E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
    • E32 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Business Fluctuations; Cycles
    • J15 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
    • J22 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Time Allocation and Labor Supply
    • J63 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Turnover; Vacancies; Layoffs

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