Male nonemployment in white, black, hispanic, and multiethnic urban neighborhoods, 1970-2000

Urban Affairs Review

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 85-125

  Wagmiller Jr , Robert L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Deindustrialization; Employment; Neighborhoods; Race

Indexed keywords

BLACK POPULATION; DEINDUSTRIALIZATION; EMPLOYMENT; ETHNIC GROUP; LOW INCOME POPULATION; NEIGHBORHOOD; RACE; SOCIAL PROBLEM;

EID: 49949084685     PISSN: 10780874     EISSN: 15528332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1078087408320236     Document Type: Article

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