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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. I. The Black Youth Employment Crisis
5. The Black Youth Employment Crisis: Summary of Findings 3
6. II. The Nature and Pattern of Change
7. 1. Black Youth Nonemployment: Duration and Job Search 23
8. 2. Transitions between Employment and Nonemployment 75
9. 3. Layoffs, Discharges and Youth Unemployment 115
10. III. Causes: Demand
11. 4. The Spatial Mismatch Hypothesis: Are There Teenage Jobs Missing in the Ghetto? 147
12. 5. The Demographic Determinants of the Demand for Black Labor 191
13. 6. Brothers of a Different Color: A Preliminary Look at Employer Treatment of White and Black Youth 233
14. 7. Do Better Jobs Make Better Workers? Absenteeism from Work Among Inner-City Black Youths 261
15. IV. Causes: Supply
16. 8. Market Incentives for Criminal Behavior 301
17. 9. Who Escapes? The Relation of Churchgoing and Other Background Factors to the Socioeconomic Performance of Black Male Youths from Inner-City Tracts 353
18. 10. The Effects of Attitudes and Aspirations on the Labor Supply of Young Men 377
19. 11. Do Welfare Programs Affect the Schooling and Work Patterns of Young Black Men? 403
20. Appendix: NBER-Mathernatica Survey of Inner-City Black Youth: An Analysis of the Undercount of Older Youths 443
21. Contributors 461
22. Author Index 463
23. Subject Index 465