Economically Disadvantaged Workers In Kansas: Analysis of Data from the Survey of Income and Education (1975-76)

Abstract

This monograph studies in some detail one of the seven problems and issues related to the Kansas labor market identified by the first monograph in this series, namely the labor market experience of "target groups" such as minorities, the handicapped, and the economically disadvantaged.

Monograph #1, (The Kansas Labor Market: Trends, Problems and Issues, November, 1981) noted that such "target groups" have suffered serious disadvantage in the labor market nationally. In the absence of adequate information, however, it was impossible to say whether their experience in Kansas was similar to that at the national level or significantly different. The present monograph, therefore, seeks (1) to provide information relevant to this question, (2) to determine the similarities and differences between this group's experiences in Kansas and in the nation, and (3) to frame policy issues that address the "target group's" in-state experience.