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Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies

University of Massachusetts Boston

Economic models and theories

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Theoretical Explanations Of Persistent Black Youth Unemployment, Rhonda M. Williams Mar 1994

Theoretical Explanations Of Persistent Black Youth Unemployment, Rhonda M. Williams

Trotter Review

This essay reviews and briefly summarizes three theoretical models used most often to explain two decades of persistently high unemployment among black youth and declining rates of male labor-force participation: neoclassical, Keynesian/neo-Keynesian, and radical perspectives. Based on a review of these models, it offers an alternative approach to explaining and analyzing black youth unemployment.

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