[npc]

No, just the people who decide who gets them: http://www.nber.org/papers/w9873

[kansface]

This may be the case, but what should the job prospects for teenagers who just dropped out of high school be ideally?

[runawaybottle]

A minimum wage job?

[bmmayer1]

Didn't Steve Levitt prove this wrong?

[npc]

I don't know, did he? Here's some more if that didn't convince you (courtesy of Tim Wise: http://www.timwise.org/2010/07/black-powers-gonna-git-you-su...)

http://www.princeton.edu/~pager/race_at_work.pdf

http://www.eeo1.com/1999_NR/Title.pdf

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/01/us/01race.html?_r=2

[coldtea]

If you are an economist (a field is already more an ideology / spin machine than science -- the science part in it is basically math), and you are more into entertainment (e.g making the NYT best selling list of shallow books) than science, then you can "prove" a lot of things, without actually proving anything.

Start with a few unexamined wrong assumptions, select the data that fit your conclusion, dress them up with anecdotes and prose, and there you go!