The Black Youth Employment Crisis (National Bureau of Economic Research Project Report)
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This edition of The Black Youth Employment Crisis (National Bureau of Economic Research Project Report) by Harry J. Holzer & Richard Freeman is a general-interest book whose subject is easy to identify. The copy shown here is 1986 • Univ of Chicago Pr • 469 pages.
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Hardcover: ISBN-13 9780226261645
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