Minority Employment in the Construction Trades.
This paper examines employment in the construction trades by race and skill level across 162 large U.S. metropolitan areas. The results reveal significant negative wage and positive scale effects on construction employment, especially for minorities and laborers, and thus imply that repeal of the Da...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Labor Research Vol. 24; no. 2; pp. 271 - 292 |
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Springer Science & Business Media B.V.
Spring 2003
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