In this article, we assess trends in residential segregation in the United States from 1960 to 2000 along several dimensions of race and ethnicity, class, and life cycle and present a method for attributing segregation to nested geographic levels.
Divergent Paths examines the prospects for upward mobility of workers in this changed economic landscape of deregulated markets and demanding shareholders that focuses on a more flexible workforce.
Divergent Paths carefully documents hidden trends in today's job market and shows that despite the celebrated job market of recent years, the old labor market of the 1960s and 1970s propelled more workers up the earnings ladder than does today's labor market.
In this article, I argue that the trends associated with the second demographic transition are following two trajectories and leading to greater disparities in children's resources.
When San Francisco started trying to promote socioeconomic diversity in its public schools, officials hoped racial diversity would result as well. It has not worked out that way.
This article uses four data sets to assess changes in the relative weights of test- and performance-based merit criteria on college enrollment during the 1980s and 1990s and considers their significance for affirmative action. Our results support the "shifting meritocracy " hypothesis, revealed by selective postsecondary institutions' increased reliance on test scores to screen students.
In this study Miliband argues for the continued relevance and centrality of class struggle in today's Western societies and examines current examples of class structures and power relationships in the West. He analyzes the role of both labor organizations and new social movements such as the "green" and "feminist" movements in the class struggles of today and explores the ways in which the power elites and dominant classes seek to maintain the social order.
This study assesses the effects of social-welfare policy extensiveness on poverty rates across fifteen affluent industrialized nations over the period 1960-91, using both absolute and relative measures of poverty. The results strongly support the conventional view that social-welfare programs reduce poverty.
A disproportionate share of low-skilled U.S. workers is employed by temporary help firms. These firms offer rapid entry into paid employment, but temporary help jobs are typically brief and it is unknown whether they foster longer-term employment. We draw upon an unusual, large-scale policy experiment in the state of Michigan to evaluate whether holding temporary
help jobs facilitates labor market advancement for low-skilled workers.