Presents findings of a study of Caribbean undocumented immigrants in the Flatbush-Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, New York. Focuses on employment among this group, and suggests that these illegal immigrants do, in fact, compete in the labor market with American-born, unskilled workers. (GC)

Two challenges to "Equal pay for equal work" are subminimum wages and workfare. There is no evidence that either two-tiered wage system would permanently increase employment. Instead the results may be (1) less union strength; (2) lower wages in general; (3) layoff of workers in the higher tiers; and (4) more discrimination against Black youth.…

Examines African American employment trends compared with increases or decreases in economic growth and Federal welfare spending during the 1970s and 1980s, focusing primarily on unemployment and labor force participation rates among African American youth. Studies the impact of structural unemployment, racial discrimination, and immigration on…