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This paper assesses, for the 1970-1980 period, the statistical effects on black male joblessness of four dimensions of the recent restructuring of the U.S. economy: ( I ) the geographical pattern of overall employment growth and decline, (2) the decline of central city manufacturing employment, (3) the deconcentration of employment opportunities, and (4) the shift from the Fordist to more flexible modes of production. The analysis focuses on 45 metropolitan communities-1 1 SCSAs and 34 SMSAs-and relies on data from two machine readable census files: County Business Patterns and Public Use Micro Data Samples, Three analytical techniques are employed: cluster analysis, to identify groups of metropolitan communities with similar economic restructuring experiences; confirmatory discriminant analysis, to identify which elements of economic restructuring statistically distinguish the groups of metropolitan areas uncovered in the cluster analysis; and OLS regression, to determine how well the dimensions of eco...
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