The Uneven Geography of Racial and Ethnic Wage Inequality: Specifying Local Labor Market Effects

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 700-725

  Parks, Virginia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

geographic inequality; immigration; local labor market; racial inequality; racial wage gap

Indexed keywords

CENSUS; EMPLOYMENT GENERATION; ETHNICITY; IMMIGRATION; LABOR MARKET; RACIAL DISPARITY; WAGE DETERMINATION; WAGE GAP;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84860126123     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: 14678306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2011.600198     Document Type: Article

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