Relationship between race-specific employment outcomes and overall employment outcomes
| log(unemployment rate) | log(EPOP 16+) | log(prime-age EPOP) | log(LFPR) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| White | Black | White | Black | White | Black | White | Black | |
| log(overall unemployment rate) | 0.998*** | 0.906*** | ||||||
| (0.017) | (0.034) | |||||||
| log(overall EPOP 16+) | 1.025*** | 1.432*** | ||||||
| (0.022) | (0.115) | |||||||
| log(overall prime-age EPOP) | 0.923*** | 1.622*** | ||||||
| (0.020) | (0.112) | |||||||
| log(overall LFPR) | 1.086*** | 1.094*** | ||||||
| (0.023) | (0.139) | |||||||
*p < 0.10; **p < 0.05; ***p < 0.01
Notes: Each column is a separate regression of a log of a race-specific employment outcome on log of the overall employment outcome for annual, state-level data from 1979–2016. All regressions include state and year fixed effects and standard errors are clustered at the state level.
Source: Authors’ analysis of state-level annual aggregations of Current Population Survey microdata