Wages, Race, Skills and Space

Susan Turner Meiklejohn

• Series Editor?€?s Foreword, Acknowledgments, List of Tables, Introduction, CHAPTER 1 Study Rationale and Methodology, CHAPTER 2 Racial Segregation in the Detroit Metropolitan Area: A Long-Lived and Persistent Phenomenon, CHAPTER 3 Employer Location Decisions: Detroit?€?s Image and Actuality, CHAPTER 4 Examining Wage Differences Between Black and White-owned Firms, CHAPTER 5 Wages and Space, CHAPTER 6 Race and Skills: The Role of Perceived Skill Differences in the Lower Wages of African-American Workers, CHAPTER 7 The Persistence of Discrimination and Policy Recommendations, Appendix A. Sample Job Wages and Benefits, Appendix B. Perceived Skill Differences Between Black and White and City and Suburban Workers, Appendix C. Sample Job and Worker Skill Characteristics, Bibliography, Index