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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED149214 AUTHOR: Gottfredson, Linda S.
TITLE: Providing Black Youth More Access to Enterprising
Work.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1977
NOTE: 22 p.; Paper presented at the Annual Convention of
the American Psychological Association (San Francisco,
California, August 26-30, 1977)
ABSTRACT: This study examined the possibility that the
large racial differences in income are partly the result of
blacks and whites holding jobs in different Holland Fields
of work, some of which might pay much better than others.
Data from the 1970 U.S. census were used to determine the
mean income of 27,067 white men aged 26-65 grouped by
educational level and by Holland type of work and to
determine the proportion of white and black men aged 36-65
falling within each of these educational and type-of-work
groups. Enterprising work was found to provide higher
incomes with less education than do other types of work.
Although a large proportion of white men at all educational
levels hold enterprising jobs, relatively few blacks were
found in this type of work. Counselors and educators have
traditionally tried to reduce the income gap between blacks
and whites by increasing college attendance among blacks.
These findings suggest that counselors also can help black
youth find better-paying jobs by providing them more access
to enterprising work. Such programs might be especially
helpful to black high school students who will not be
attending college. (Author)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Affirmative-Action; Census-Figures; Labor
Education; Racial-Discrimination; Research-Projects;
Statistical-Data
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Black-Youth; *Career-Counseling;
*Employment-; *Job-Enrichment; *Occupational-Aspiration
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