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Johnson, Kecia; Pais, Jeremy; South, Scott J. – Social Forces, 2012
Consistent with the hypothesis that heightened visibility and competition lead to greater economic discrimination against minorities, countless studies have observed a negative association between minority population concentration and minority socioeconomic attainment. But minorities who reside in areas with high minority concentration are likely…
Descriptors: Minority Groups, Competition, Social Mobility, Correlation
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Greenman, Emily; Xie, Yu – Social Forces, 2008
There are sizeable earnings differentials by gender and race in the U.S. labor market, with women earning less than men and most racial/ethnic minority groups earning less than whites. It has been proposed in the previous literature that the effects of gender and race on earnings are additive, so that minority women suffer the full disadvantage of…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Racial Differences, Racial Factors, Wages