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• catalog abstract ""Is the United States justified in seeing itself as a meritocracy, where stark inequalities in pay and employment reflect differences in skills, education, and effort? Or does racial discrimination still permeate the labor market, resulting in the systematic underhiring and underpaying of racial minorities, regardless of merit? Throughout the 1980s and early 1990s African Americans have lost ground to whites in the labor market, but this widening racial inequality is most often attributed to economic restructuring, not the racial attitudes of employers. It is argued that the educational gap between blacks and whites, through narrowing, carries greater penalties now that we are living in an era of global trade and technological change that favors highly educated workers and displaces the low-skilled." "Stories Employers Tell demonstrates that this conventional wisdom is incomplete. Racial discrimination is still a fundamental part of the explanation of labor market disadvantage. Drawing upon a wide-ranging survey of empolyers in Atlanta, Boston, Detroit, and Los Angeles, Philip Moss and Chris Tilly investigate the types of jobs employers offer, the skills required, and the recruitment, screening, and hiring procedures used to fill them. The authors then follow up in greater depth on selected employers to explore the attitudes, motivations, and rationale underlying their hiring decisions, as well as decisions about where to locate a business."--Jacket.".
• catalog contributor b11879979.
• catalog contributor b11879980.
• catalog created "c2001.".
• catalog date "2001".
• catalog date "c2001.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
• catalog description ""Is the United States justified in seeing itself as a meritocracy, where stark inequalities in pay and employment reflect differences in skills, education, and effort? Or does racial discrimination still permeate the labor market, resulting in the systematic underhiring and underpaying of racial minorities, regardless of merit? Throughout the 1980s and early 1990s African Americans have lost ground to whites in the labor market, but this widening racial inequality is most often attributed to economic restructuring, not the racial attitudes of employers.".
• catalog description ""Stories Employers Tell demonstrates that this conventional wisdom is incomplete. Racial discrimination is still a fundamental part of the explanation of labor market disadvantage. Drawing upon a wide-ranging survey of empolyers in Atlanta, Boston, Detroit, and Los Angeles, Philip Moss and Chris Tilly investigate the types of jobs employers offer, the skills required, and the recruitment, screening, and hiring procedures used to fill them. The authors then follow up in greater depth on selected employers to explore the attitudes, motivations, and rationale underlying their hiring decisions, as well as decisions about where to locate a business."--Jacket.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-306) and index.".
• catalog description "It is argued that the educational gap between blacks and whites, through narrowing, carries greater penalties now that we are living in an era of global trade and technological change that favors highly educated workers and displaces the low-skilled."".
• catalog description "Racial inequality in the labor market: market forces or discrimination? -- The scope of the study: data, methods, and the four cities -- The skills employers seek -- Employer perceptions of race and skill -- Employers view the inner city / with Ivy Kennelly and Joleen Kirschenman -- Hiring procedures and the role of formality -- The moral of the tale: designing better labor market policies -- Appendix A. Profiles of data sets used in this book -- Appendix B. Descriptive statistics of variables.".
• catalog extent "xii, 317 p. :".
• catalog identifier "0871546094".
• catalog isPartOf "A volume in the multi-city study of urban inequality".
• catalog isPartOf "Multi city study of urban inequality.".
• catalog issued "2001".
• catalog issued "c2001.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New York : Russell Sage Foundation,".
• catalog spatial "United States.".
• catalog subject "331.13/3/0973 21".
• catalog subject "Career development Social aspects United States.".
• catalog subject "Discrimination in employment United States.".
• catalog subject "HF5549.5.C35 M674 2001".
• catalog subject "Minorities Employment United States.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Racial inequality in the labor market: market forces or discrimination? -- The scope of the study: data, methods, and the four cities -- The skills employers seek -- Employer perceptions of race and skill -- Employers view the inner city / with Ivy Kennelly and Joleen Kirschenman -- Hiring procedures and the role of formality -- The moral of the tale: designing better labor market policies -- Appendix A. Profiles of data sets used in this book -- Appendix B. Descriptive statistics of variables.".
• catalog title "Stories employers tell : race, skill, and hiring in America / Philip Moss and Chris Tilly.".
• catalog type "text".