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Urban Inequality Evidence From Four Cities / Alice O'Connor, Chris Tilly, Lawrence D. Bobo, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Multi city study of urban inequality.
- A volume in the multi city study of urban inequality
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Equality--United States.
- Equality.
- Urban economics--United States.
- Urban economics.
- Cities and towns--United States.
- Cities and towns.
- Sociology, Urban--United States.
- Sociology, Urban.
- United States--Economic policy.
- United States.
- United States--Social policy.
- United States--Race relations.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (564 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2016
- Place of Publication:
- New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Despite today's booming economy, secure work and upward mobility remain out of reach for many central-city residents.Urban Inequality presents an authoritative new look at the racial and economic divisions that continue to beset our nation's cities.Drawing upon a landmark survey of employers and households in four U.S.
- Contents:
- Contents ; Contributors ; Acknowledgments ; Introduction. Understanding Inequality in the Late Twentieth-Century Metropolis: New Perspectives on the Enduring Racial Divide / Alice O'Connor ; Chapter 1. Metropolises of the Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality: Social, Economic, Demographic, and Racial Issues in Atlanta, Boston, Detroit, and Los Angeles / Reynolds Farley ; Part I. Racial Attitudes ; Chapter 2. Stereotyping and Urban Inequality / Lawrence D. Bobo and Michael P. Massagli
- Chapter 3. Perceived Group Discrimination and Policy Attitudes: The Sources and Consequences of the Race and Gender Gaps / James R. Kluegel and Lawrence D. Bobo Part II. Residence, Employment, and the Significance of Space; Chapter 4. Processes of Racial Residential Segregation / Camille Zubrinsky Charles ; Chapter 5. Ethnic Residential Segregation and Its Consequences / Franklin D. Wilson and Roger B. Hammer ; Chapter 6. Space as a Signal: How Employers Perceive Neighborhoods in Four Metropolitan Labor Markets / Chris Tilly, Philip Moss, Joleen Kirschenman, and Ivy Kennelly
- Part III. Inequality and the Structure of Labor Market Opportunity Chapter 7. Racial and Ethnic Differences in Job Searching in Urban Centers / Luis M. Falcon and Edwin Melendez ; Chapter 8. Inequality Through Labor Markets, Firms, and Families: The Intersection of Gender and Race-Ethnicity Across Three Cities / Irene Browne, Leann Tigges, and Julie Press ; Chapter 9. Linking the Multi-City Study's Household and Employer Surveys to Test for Race and Gender Effects in Hiring and Wage Setting / Tom Hertz, Chris Tilly, and Michael P. Massagli
- Chapter 10. Why Opportunity Isn't Knocking: Racial Inequality and the Demand for Labor / Philip Moss and Chris Tilly Chapter 11. Are Jobs Available for Disadvantaged Workers in Urban Areas? / Harry J. Holzer and Sheldon Danziger ; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-61044-431-0
- OCLC:
- 906809364
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