What Spatial Mismatch? The Proximity of Blacks to Employment in Boston and Houston

Ghettos and Barrios: The Impact of Neighborhood Poverty and Race on Job Matching among Blacks and Latinos

“…When these social mechanisms are highlighted, evidence continues to underscore the importance of personal networks for nding work. For example, in a recent study of the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn, Kasinitz and Rosenberg (1996) found that local blue-collar jobs are regularly lled via social networks that exclude nearby, minority residents (see also Aponte 1996;Cohn and Fossett 1996).…”

“…When these social mechanisms are highlighted, evidence continues to underscore the importance of personal networks for nding work. For example, in a recent study of the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn, Kasinitz and Rosenberg (1996) found that local blue-collar jobs are regularly lled via social networks that exclude nearby, minority residents (see also Aponte 1996;Cohn and Fossett 1996).Survey research on personal networks and job matching could help to illuminate these dynamics and their generalizability across neighborhood contexts, but to date, this researchWe would like to thank Joel Devine, Jim Wright, members of the Tulane Research Group, and anonymous reviewers for comments on earlier versions of this research. Direct correspondence to: James Elliott, Department of Sociology, 220 Newcomb Hall, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70118.…”

Referral Hiring and Ethnically Homogeneous Jobs: How Prevalent Is the Connection and for Whom?

“…Increasingly answers to the distribution question focus on the salience of social networks for finding employment (Aponte, 1996;Cohn and Fossett, 1996;Elliott, 1999Elliott, , 2000Kasinitz and Rosenberg, 1996;Sassen, 1995;Waldinger, 1997). Instead of emphasizing well-documented declines in blue-collar jobs, a social network approach highlights the functions that personal contacts play in the labor market.…”

The Poverty of Liberal Economics

“…In turn, sociologically oriented scholars often focus on unemployment and earnings as key determinants of poverty (see Jencks and Peterson 1991;McFate, Lawson and Wilson 1995;Marks 1991). Numerous empirical studies focus on unemployment or underemployment as measures of the economic changes that cause poverty (Lichter 1988;Massey et al 1994;Eggers and Massey 1991;Cohn and Fossett 1996;Mouw 2000). Across the social sciences, unemployment is considered a crucial precursor to poverty.…”