Kristin
F. Butcher, in Industrial and Labor Relations Review (Jan.
1994), Cornell Univ., Ithaca, N.Y. 14853-3901.
Do the "cultural traditions" of American-born blacks impede their economic progress? Promi- nent economist Thomas Sowell-pointing to the higher earnings of West Indian immigrants in the United States-has argued that they do. Butcher, an economist at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, has a different explanation.
Analyzing 1980 census data, she finds that West Indian immigrant...