Marching to its Own Drummer

Angelo, Larian

doi:10.1177/107808749503100105

Urban Affairs Review

1995

DOI: 10.1177/107808749503100105

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Marching to its Own Drummer

Larian Angelo

Abstract: In this article, the author compares labor market trends in New York City with trends in the United States as a whole and uses a newly created index to relate these trends to differential changes in industrial structure. Although the national trend for real wage growth has been stagnant or negative for the last 15 years, New York City residents have enjoyed substantial real wage increases in the same period. Also, there is little evidence at the local level of the rising inequality of wage income distribution … Show more

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Social Polarisation and Inequality in London: The Earnings Evidence, 1979–95

Hamnett

Cross

1998

Environ Plann C Gov Policy

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The last few years have seen a major debate on the scale, extent, and causes of social polarisation in global cities and in Western societies in general. But the debate has often been characterised more by theoretical assertion than by empirical analysis. In particular, the concept of social polarisation has often been confused with inequality. The authors use General Household Survey data and New Earnings Survey data from 1979 to 1995 to examine the existence and extent of polarisation in London. It is argued that the evidence for polarisation is relatively weak, and that to the extent that polarisation exists it is asymmetric, with much greater growth in the size of groups at the top of the earnings distribution than at the bottom. But it is also argued that both London and Great Britain as a whole have seen a marked increase in earnings inequality over the last twenty-five years. Although most groups have improved earnings in real terms, the increase has been much greater at the top end of the earnings scale. As a result, the interquartile and interdecile earnings ratios have risen sharply. It is concluded that London has seen an increase in earnings inequality rather than growth of social polarisation.

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Social Polarisation and Inequality in London: The Earnings Evidence, 1979–95

Hamnett

Cross

1998

Environ Plann C Gov Policy

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Losing Control? Inequality and Social Divisions in Oslo

Wessel

2001

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Moving up, but How Far? African American Women and Economic Restructuring in Los Angeles, 1970–1990

James

Grant

Cranford

2000

Sociological Perspectives

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In this article we use 1970 to 1990 Public Use Microdata Samples (PUMS) to examine patterns associated with African American women's economic and labor market integration in Los Angeles. We examine key indicators of overall economic restructuring in Los Angeles, such as patterns of industrial growth and decline during the period in question. Wefocus primarily onfour specific labor market characteristics: changes in industrial characteristics of Los Angeles, changing occupational distribution, changes in earnings, and employment patterns among African American women. Although we focus on trends for African American women, these trends are also examined, where relevant, for other groups. Specifically, comparisons are made with white women and Latinas and with African American, white, and Latino men. Our analysis illustrates the manner in which economic restructuring has had important and contradictory impacts on labor market participation and occupational distribution among African American women.Recent changes in the labor market experiences of men have been an issue of great intellectual and public policy concern. For example, several researchers have noted recent wage stagnation (Angelo 1995; Freeman 1991) and increasing wage inequality among men (Freeman 1991;Juhn, Murphy, and Pierce 1993). Declines in labor force participation of young African American men have been a paramount concern examined in both urban poverty and labor market literature (Juhn, 1992;Welch 1990). The deteriorating status of African American men in the labor market has been related to the process of economic restructuring that has

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Marching to its Own Drummer

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Social Polarisation and Inequality in London: The Earnings Evidence, 1979–95

Social Polarisation and Inequality in London: The Earnings Evidence, 1979–95

Losing Control? Inequality and Social Divisions in Oslo

Moving up, but How Far? African American Women and Economic Restructuring in Los Angeles, 1970–1990

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