Technology and Employment Innovation and Growth in the U.S. Economy (1987) / Chapter Skim
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5: Differential Technology Impacts: Black Workers, Female Workers, and Labor Force Entrants
5: Differential Technology Impacts: Black Workers, Female Workers, and Labor Force Entrants
Pages 113-121
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Those concerns have not diminished since the 1960s unemployment rates among minorities in the United States, especially rates for black youths, have shown a disturbing pattern of increase relative to those for whites. What are the likely impacts of technological change on the employment prospects of minorities and labor force entrants, as well as for women?
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These data provide rough estimates of the potential negative effect of technological change on black employment opportunities. Eleven occupations (out of more than 350 occupations with at least 25,000 workers for which BLS prepares 1995 forecasts)
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has argued that the geographic implications of technological change may reduce employment opportunities for urban minority populations. He contends that information technology has increased job opportunities in relatively high-skill occupations located in central cities while reducing employment opportunities in other sectors.
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Policies to combat discrimination should reduce the difficulties faced by minority workers in adjusting to technological change. As is generally the case in considering the employment impacts of technological change, the state of the overall economy plays a major role in the way new technology affects minority employment prospects.
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Continued efforts to close this gap, combined with improved access to basic skills training for employed or displaced workers, are crucial in easing the burden of adjustment to technological change for black and Hispanic workers. FEMALE WORKERS There is insufficient evidence to make even a cautious estimate of the long-term effects of technological change on employment for women.
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Female workers do not appear to face differentially severe employment losses as a result of technological change. The women's job losses that are forecast by reliable analysts are modest in size and will be offset many times over by growth in employment opportunities for women.
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According to BLS forecasts, only two of the entry-level occupational groups listed in Table 5-2 (farming, forestry, and fishery workers and private household workers) will decrease in size during the next decade for any reason, including technological change.
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Even the full-employment economy of New England currently displays unemployment rates for teenagers in excess of 10 percent. Many (though by no means all)
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