Volume 11, Number 2 (Spring) 1976
Leigh, Duane E. 1976. "Occupational Advancement in the Late 1960s: An Indirect Test of the Dual Labor Market Hypothesis." Journal of Human Resources 11(2):155-171.
The occupational mobility of black and white males during the late 1960s is examined to test the hypotheses that large and systematic racial differentials exist in both between-firm and within-firm job upgrading. Longitudinal data from the 1970 Census and the National Longitudinal Surveys are used in the empirical analysis. Neither sample provides evidence of a systematic racial differential in the effect of interfirm mobility on occupational advancement. The evidence with respect to intrafirm advancement is less unequivocal. Given the racial differential in initial occupational levels, however, only small black-white differences in advancement appear within internal labor markets.
The author is Associate Professor of Economics, Washington State University. The research described in this paper was conducted at the Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and was supported by a grant from the Manpower Administration, U.S. Department of Labor, under the Manpower Development and Training Act of 1962, as amended. I am indebted to Glen Cain, Bennett Harrison, Stanley Masters, and three anonymous referees for helpful comments.
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