Migration and metropolitan opportunity structures: a demographic response toracial inequality

Article Abstract:

A study on black and white migration in metropolitan areas shows that racial inequality still plays a role in the labormarkets. Areas that provide more racial equality and higher opportunity tends to draw more blacks than areas with higher incidence of racial and job discriminations. However, blacks' out-migration in metropolitan areas that havehigh levels of racial inequality is surprisingly low. Whites prefer areas wheretheir advantages over minorities are greater with regards to employment inequality. Still, their out-migration is more considerable in areas where job competition with blacks is greater.

Social aspects, Research, Employment, Minorities, Metropolitan areas, Job hunting, Labor mobility, Occupations, Minority employees

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Sociologists' contributions to the study of social change and social inequality

Article Abstract:

Definitions of race have changed in the US during the 1960s-1990s, with census respondents expected to be permitted to describe themselves as being of multi-racial origin for the first time in the year 2000 US Census. Ethnic categories are also being redefined. Social inequality is being perceived differently by sociologists, with sex differences now identified in life chances. Sociologists are also focusing more closely on the dynamics of sexual and racial inequality.

Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Study and teaching, Social change, Equality, Sociologists

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The effect of welfare on migration

Article Abstract:

Economic opportunity is the dominant factor in the decision to migrate. Welfare recipients, such as the single female household heads, seek higher welfare benefits and greater economic opportunity, while non-welfare groups seek greater economic opportunity but avoid high welfare benefits. Two parent families migrate for better economic opportunities whether on welfare or not. Welfare benefits both attract and repel migration in general and labor supply in particular.

Analysis, Reports, Welfare, Public assistance, Income, Migration, Internal, Internal migration

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