Abstract
This paper examines the impact of manufacturing employment decline on the socioeconomic outcomes within and between black and white Americans since 1960. The analysis shows that manufacturing decline had a negative impact on blacks in terms of their wages, employment, marriage rates, house values, poverty rates, death rates, single parenthood, teen motherhood, child poverty, and child mortality. In addition, the decline in manufacturing increased inequality within the black community for wages and other outcomes. Similar patterns are found for whites, but to a lesser degree—leading to larger gaps between whites and blacks in wages, marriage patterns, poverty, single-parenthood, and death rates.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 770-785 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| Journal | Review of Economics and Statistics |
| Volume | 103 |
| Issue number | 4 |
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| State | Published - 1 Oct 2021 |
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