RACIAL OCCUPATIONAL INEQUALITY IN SOUTHERN METROPOLITAN-AREAS, 1940-1980 - REVISITING THE VISIBILITY-DISCRIMINATION HYPOTHESIS Academic Article

abstract

• This article examines racial occupational inequality in southern metropolitan areas over the forty-year period beginning in 1940 and ending in 1980. Remarkable stability in inequality between blacks and whites is observed between 1940 and 1970, followed by a substantial decline in inequality between 1970 and 1980. Additionally, the relationship between the relative size of the minority population and racial occupational inequality was observed to be strongly positive and significant in separate analyses for each of the five decades, including 1980, after inequality had declined sharply. Similar results were obtained from a pooled, cross-sectional time-series analysis. 1991 The University of North Carolina Press.

authors

• Fossett, Mark

published proceedings

• SOCIAL FORCES

author list (cited authors)

• BURR, J. A., GALLE, O. R., & FOSSETT, M. A.

citation count

• 35

complete list of authors

• BURR, JA||GALLE, OR||FOSSETT, MA

publication date

• March 1991

publisher

• Oxford University Press (OUP)  Publisher

published in

• SOCIAL FORCES  Journal

keywords

• 10 Reduced Inequalities
• 44 Human Society
• 4410 Sociology

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.2307/2579477

start page

• 831

end page

• 850

volume

• 69

issue

• 3

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/sf/69.3.831

user-defined tag

• 10 Reduced Inequalities