William Spriggs
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American economist
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Why Is William Spriggs Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, William Edward Spriggs was an American economist who was a professor of economics at Howard University, chief economist for the AFL-CIO, and Assistant Secretary of Labor for Policy in the Obama administration from 2009 to 2012.
William Spriggs's Published Works
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- What does the AFQT really measure: Race, wages, schooling and the AFQT score (1996) (133)
- A Logit Decomposition Analysis of Occupational Segregation: Results for the 1970s and 1980s (1996) (49)
- Raising the Floor: The Effects of the Minimum Wage on Low-Wage Workers (1994) (45)
- The Relative Returns to Graduating from a Historically Black College/University: Propensity Score Matching Estimates from the National Survey of Black Americans (2011) (44)
- The Effect of Federal Contractor Status on Racial Differences in Establishment-Level Employment Shares: 1979-1992 (1996) (36)
- A logit decomposition analysis of occupational segregation: An update for the 1990s of Spriggs and Williams (2002) (14)
- Accounting for the Racial Gap in AFQT Scores: Comment on Nan L. Maxwell, “The Effect on Black-White Wage Differences of Differences in the Quantity and Quality of Education” (2002) (13)
- Negative Effects of TANF on College Enrollment. Special Research Report. (2002) (13)
- The State of Black America 2000 (1998) (12)
- How does it feel to be free?: Reflections on black-white economic inequality in the era of “color-blind” law (1999) (12)
- Changes in the Federal Minimum Wage: A Test of Wage Norms (1993) (10)
- Negative effects of state welfare policy on recipient college enrollment (2004) (9)
- Do the skills of adults employed in minimum wage contour jobs explain why they get paid less? (2004) (6)
- Strengthening Community: Social Insurance in a Diverse America (2004) (6)
- Black Employment, Criminal Activity and Entrepreneurship: A Case Study of New Jersey (1997) (4)
- Wage Dynamics and Racial and Ethnic Occupational Segregation Among Less-Educated Men in Metropolitan Labor Markets (2016) (4)
- Measuring Residential Segregation: An Application of Trend Surface Analysis (1984) (4)
- The Virginia Colored Farmers' Alliance: A Case Study of Race and Class Identity (1979) (4)
- The State of Black America, 1999: The Impact of Color-Consciousness in the United States. (1999) (3)
- Equity in Unemployment Insurance Benefit Access (2021) (1)
- Economists' Assessments of the Likely Employment and Wage Effects of the North American Free Trade Agreement (1993) (1)
- The Great Reversal: How an Influential International Organization Changed Its View on Employment Security, Labor Market Flexibility, and Collective Bargaining (2022) (1)
- Abstracts for discrimination and affirmative action and public policy (1999) (0)
- Have The Returns to Attending A Black College Declined (2007) (0)
- A Look at Inequality, Workers’ Rights, and Race (2018) (0)
- Book reviews: Income and social security and substandard working conditions (1994) (0)
- An Empirical Analysis of HBCU Attendance on Black Student's Graduation Rates (2023) (0)
- Publications Received (2004) (0)
- Book Review: Income and Social Security and Substandard Working Conditions: Clear and Convincing Evidence: Measurement of Discrimination in America (1994) (0)
- Beyond NAFTA: employment, growth, and income-distribution effects of a Western Hemisphere free trade area (1993) (0)
- Leave No One Behind: A Policy Framework on Poverty, Race, and Justice (2018) (0)
- NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF TANF (2012) (0)
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