Cathy Yang Liu
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 213691 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Cathy Yang Liu |
| PRENOMES | Cathy Yang |
| SOBRENOME | Liu |
| ASSINATURA | LIU C Y |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Georgia State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9479-9233 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 31 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 200 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2007 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Good Jobs or Bad Jobs? Immigrant Workers in the Gig Economy
New work arrangements enabled by online platforms, or gig work, saw substantive growth during the COVID-19 pandemic. Various estimates have suggested the wide participation of workers in the gig economy, with minority and immigrant workers well represented. The quality of work is a multi-dimensional concept that goes beyond earnings. One framework of good jobs and bad jobs centers on control over work schedule, content and duration, stability, sa…
State responses during the Covid-19 pandemic and their impacts on small businesses
The (Uneven) Spatial Distribution of Entrepreneurial Support Organizations in the Regional Ecosystem
Existing research recognizes the importance of entrepreneurial support organizations (ESOs) in facilitating entrepreneurial activity and economic development in regional entrepreneurial ecosystems. We have insufficient knowledge, however, of the accessibility to such resources by different entrepreneur groups, especially spatially. This study uses the diversifying Atlanta Metropolitan Area to examine this question. Spatial visualizations and stat…
Leave or stay? The small business landscape along Buford highway
Immigrant small businesses in emerging gateway cities in the Sunbelt region are more likely to cluster along inner-suburban corridors where they contribute to economic development and the social and cultural capital of growing immigrant groups. These businesses also face numerous challenges in accessing government services and traditional financing, withstanding market shocks, and overcoming language and cultural barriers. This research examines …
Welcoming immigrant integration beyond the local level
Welcoming America, a nonprofit organization based in metropolitan Atlanta, has grown a membership network throughout the U.S. of nonprofit organizations and municipalities that present their communities as “welcoming cities” for immigrants. In 2018, Welcoming America launched the “One Region Initiative” to cultivate a concept of a “welcoming region” to transcend municipal boundaries. The purpose of this paper is to examine One Region member munic…
Transit Investment and Income Inequality in U.S. Metropolitan Areas
The impact of transit investment on the access to economic opportunities and income inequality is an important question for researchers, transportation planners, and policymakers. This research conducts a comprehensive panel data analysis on the association between different types of transit investment (rail and non-rail) and various measures of income inequality for all U.S. Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) from 2011 to 2017. We find a sign…
Changes in Mobile Broadband Infrastructure in Georgia During the Covid−19 Pandemic
The COVID−19 pandemic brought the digital divide to center stage. This article investigates whether the crisis disrupted mobile broadband infrastructure, taking Georgia as a case study. We hypothesize that the pandemic could have slowed down ongoing infrastructure provision initiatives, as in other segments of the economy, or spurred them by bringing renewed attention and resources to overcoming the digital divide. We find that the per capita ant…
The geography of nonstandard employment across U.S. metropolitan areas
The U.S. nonstandard workforce remained at around 10% of the total employed population for the past decades, although the subnational levels reveal variation. Insufficient scholarly attention has been devoted to understanding its spatial distribution and associated causes. This paper addresses this gap by analyzing the contextual factors that help explain the geographic unevenness of the nonstandard workforce across U.S. metropolitan areas from 1…
Immigrant Entrepreneurship in Cities
Towards inclusive urban development? New knowledge/creative economy and wage inequality in major Chinese cities
Migrant entrepreneurship in China
Neighborhood Diversity and Food Access in a Changing Urban Spatial Structure
This paper examines food access disparity in relation to neighborhood diversity, especially race/ethnicity and poverty in a changing intrametropolitan spatial structure, using the Atlanta Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) as a case study. With detailed grocery store data, this study finds a substantive change in food access between 2003 and 2015 in terms of both the number of grocery stores and the gravity–based accessibility indicator, althoug…
Special issue
Self-employed migrants and their entrepreneurial space in megacities
Linking migrant enclave residence to employment in urban China
With rapid economic restructuring, large-scale population migration, and market-oriented housing commercialization, China’s urban residents have experienced increasing segregation in both residential spaces and workplaces. Using the sixth census (year 2010) data with detailed geographic information for Shanghai, we document the residential patterns of local residents and migrants and identify the clustered enclaves of migrant workers. The results…
Welcoming Cities
In the face of continued immigration to the United States and federal policy inertia, many local governments have started to adopt their own immigrant-related policies to cope with the newcomers. Among them, welcoming cities represent a new wave of inclusive local government responses that seeks to incorporate immigrants socially and economically and deviates from the previous policies that focus on law enforcement and legal status. In this artic…
Transnational activities of immigrant-owned firms and their performances in the USA
Immigrant employment through the Great Recession
Immigrants continue to settle in metropolitan areas across the United States and bring significant changes to various urban labor markets. Using American Community Survey (ACS) data for 2007 and 2011, we trace the employment outcomes of immigrants compared to native-born workers before and after the recent Great Recession across the 100 largest metropolitan areas and examine individual-level and metropolitan-level factors that shape their employm…
The Representation of Immigrants in Federal, State, and Local Government Work Forces
Creativity and Inequality
Utilizing C hinese data for the years of 1998, 2000, 2005, and 2008, this research traces the growth of the creative economy and the enlarging income inequality in C hina's urban economy. While the creative sector now makes up close to 30 percent of C hina's urban private employment, industry‐based earnings disparity has also increased substantively. Provinces with larger creative economy also tend to have higher level of wage inequality among wo…
Ethnic enterprises and community development
L atino Immigration and the Low‐Skill Urban Labor Market
Objectives L atino immigrants continue to enter low‐skilled urban labor markets across metropolitan areas in the U nited S tates. This study provides a dynamic account of the employment competition between L atino immigrant and black workers in the context of an emerging immigrant gateway: the A tlanta M etropolitan S tatistical A rea. Methods This study identifies occupational niches that L atino immigrants and black workers heavily concentrate …
Are Central Cities More Creative? the Intrametropolitan Geography of Creative Industries
This paper examines the location and growth of creative industries within metropolitan areas. In recent years, the creative industries have been increasingly sought after as potential engines of metropolitan economic growth. Although some research has been done on the location decisions by such firms and workers, it has primarily focused on interregional and intermetropolitan disparities. We use establishment-level data to investigate intrametrop…
Immigrant Settlement and Employment Suburbanisation in the US
Two significant trends have occurred in urban areas across the US during recent decades: immigration and the decentralisation of employment. While each trend has been investigated by research, the magnitude of spatial disparity between immigrant settlement patterns and employment location and its change over time has received much less attention. Using a sample of the 60 largest immigrant metropolitan areas, this study uses a spatial mismatch ind…
Counting and Understanding the Contingent Workforce
Contingent workers are a large and increasingly important segment of the US labour force. This paper uses the Contingent Work Supplement of the Current Population Survey to gain some understanding of this workforce and to link that information to larger on-going annual and decennial surveys for sub-national-level estimation and analysis. A typology is developed of the non-standard workforce based on their work arrangement and the industries in wh…
Welcoming Cities
In the face of continued immigration to the United States and federal policy inertia, many local governments have started to adopt their own immigrant-related policies to cope with the newcomers. Among them, welcoming cities represent a new wave of inclusive local government responses that seeks to incorporate immigrants socially and economically and deviates from the previous policies that focus on law enforcement and legal status. In this artic…
Linking migrant enclave residence to employment in urban China
With rapid economic restructuring, large-scale population migration, and market-oriented housing commercialization, China’s urban residents have experienced increasing segregation in both residential spaces and workplaces. Using the sixth census (year 2010) data with detailed geographic information for Shanghai, we document the residential patterns of local residents and migrants and identify the clustered enclaves of migrant workers. The results…
Ethnic enclave residence, employment, and commuting of Latino workers
This paper examines the impact of living in ethnic enclaves in different parts of a metropolitan area on low‐skilled Latino immigrants' employment accessibility. It does so by comparing the employment status and commuting times of Latinos living in and out of ethnic neighborhoods in central city, inner‐ring suburbs, and outer‐ring suburbs in Chicago, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C. Using the 2000 Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS), this paper f…
Travel Behavior among Latino Immigrants
This article investigates the determinants of Latino immigrants’ travel mode choices (auto alone, carpool, transit, and other modes) from six different immigrant gateways: Atlanta, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Washington, D.C. Particular emphasis is placed on the role of living in ethnically concentrated locations and working in ethnically concentrated employment sectors in shaping their choices. The results indicate that living in …
Immigrant Settlement and Employment Suburbanisation in the US
Two significant trends have occurred in urban areas across the US during recent decades: immigration and the decentralisation of employment. While each trend has been investigated by research, the magnitude of spatial disparity between immigrant settlement patterns and employment location and its change over time has received much less attention. Using a sample of the 60 largest immigrant metropolitan areas, this study uses a spatial mismatch ind…
Ethnic enterprises and community development
Employment Concentration and Job Quality for Low-Skilled Latino Immigrants
This article examines the formation, determination, and quality of employment concentration for low-skilled Latino immigrants. Comparative evidence is drawn from the three metropolitan areas of Chicago, Los Angeles, and Washington, DC. Using 2000 Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS), gender-specific ethnic niches where Latino immigrants disproportionately concentrate are identified and niche effects on wage earnings are analyzed. This study finds t…
Immigrants and the Spatial Mismatch Hypothesis
This paper examines the effect of space and race/ethnicity on labour force participation outcomes among minority and immigrant youth in the Los Angeles metropolitan areas. This research contributes to the spatial mismatch literature by analysing the differences between firstand second-generation immigrants in addition to exploring the role of race and job accessibility on the likelihood of working. It does so by comparing the employment status of…
Towards inclusive urban development? New knowledge/creative economy and wage inequality in major Chinese cities
Immigrant employment through the Great Recession
Immigrants continue to settle in metropolitan areas across the United States and bring significant changes to various urban labor markets. Using American Community Survey (ACS) data for 2007 and 2011, we trace the employment outcomes of immigrants compared to native-born workers before and after the recent Great Recession across the 100 largest metropolitan areas and examine individual-level and metropolitan-level factors that shape their employm…
Self-employed migrants and their entrepreneurial space in megacities
L atino Immigration and the Low‐Skill Urban Labor Market
Objectives L atino immigrants continue to enter low‐skilled urban labor markets across metropolitan areas in the U nited S tates. This study provides a dynamic account of the employment competition between L atino immigrant and black workers in the context of an emerging immigrant gateway: the A tlanta M etropolitan S tatistical A rea. Methods This study identifies occupational niches that L atino immigrants and black workers heavily concentrate …
From Los Angeles to Shanghai
This article gauges the applicability of five urban paradigms derived from the urban experience of the Western world, especially from that of Los Angeles, to the urban realities of an East Asian city: Shanghai, China. The five metaphors - world city, cyber city, dual city, hybrid city and sustainable city - are each examined against Shanghai's urban context. The findings are that for Shanghai, and probably other East Asian cities, world city can …
The Representation of Immigrants in Federal, State, and Local Government Work Forces
Are Central Cities More Creative? the Intrametropolitan Geography of Creative Industries
This paper examines the location and growth of creative industries within metropolitan areas. In recent years, the creative industries have been increasingly sought after as potential engines of metropolitan economic growth. Although some research has been done on the location decisions by such firms and workers, it has primarily focused on interregional and intermetropolitan disparities. We use establishment-level data to investigate intrametrop…
Neighborhood Diversity and Food Access in a Changing Urban Spatial Structure
This paper examines food access disparity in relation to neighborhood diversity, especially race/ethnicity and poverty in a changing intrametropolitan spatial structure, using the Atlanta Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) as a case study. With detailed grocery store data, this study finds a substantive change in food access between 2003 and 2015 in terms of both the number of grocery stores and the gravity–based accessibility indicator, althoug…
Counting and Understanding the Contingent Workforce
Contingent workers are a large and increasingly important segment of the US labour force. This paper uses the Contingent Work Supplement of the Current Population Survey to gain some understanding of this workforce and to link that information to larger on-going annual and decennial surveys for sub-national-level estimation and analysis. A typology is developed of the non-standard workforce based on their work arrangement and the industries in wh…
Good Jobs or Bad Jobs? Immigrant Workers in the Gig Economy
New work arrangements enabled by online platforms, or gig work, saw substantive growth during the COVID-19 pandemic. Various estimates have suggested the wide participation of workers in the gig economy, with minority and immigrant workers well represented. The quality of work is a multi-dimensional concept that goes beyond earnings. One framework of good jobs and bad jobs centers on control over work schedule, content and duration, stability, sa…
Transit Investment and Income Inequality in U.S. Metropolitan Areas
The impact of transit investment on the access to economic opportunities and income inequality is an important question for researchers, transportation planners, and policymakers. This research conducts a comprehensive panel data analysis on the association between different types of transit investment (rail and non-rail) and various measures of income inequality for all U.S. Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) from 2011 to 2017. We find a sign…
The geography of nonstandard employment across U.S. metropolitan areas
The U.S. nonstandard workforce remained at around 10% of the total employed population for the past decades, although the subnational levels reveal variation. Insufficient scholarly attention has been devoted to understanding its spatial distribution and associated causes. This paper addresses this gap by analyzing the contextual factors that help explain the geographic unevenness of the nonstandard workforce across U.S. metropolitan areas from 1…
Immigrants and the Spatial Mismatch Hypothesis
This paper examines the effect of space and race/ethnicity on labour force participation outcomes among minority and immigrant youth in the Los Angeles metropolitan areas. This research contributes to the spatial mismatch literature by analysing the differences between firstand second-generation immigrants in addition to exploring the role of race and job accessibility on the likelihood of working. It does so by comparing the employment status of…
Ethnic enclave residence, employment, and commuting of Latino workers
This paper examines the impact of living in ethnic enclaves in different parts of a metropolitan area on low‐skilled Latino immigrants' employment accessibility. It does so by comparing the employment status and commuting times of Latinos living in and out of ethnic neighborhoods in central city, inner‐ring suburbs, and outer‐ring suburbs in Chicago, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C. Using the 2000 Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS), this paper f…
Re-Creating New Orleans
The purpose of this article is to consider the promotion of the entertainment industries as a means to economic redevelopment in post-Katrina New Orleans. A comparative study is conducted with three other cities in the Southeast: Atlanta, Georgia; Austin, Texas; and Wilmington, North Carolina. The study begins by laying a theoretical foundation for such an approach, looking at creative class and human capital theories in particular. After providi…
Travel Behavior among Latino Immigrants
This article investigates the determinants of Latino immigrants’ travel mode choices (auto alone, carpool, transit, and other modes) from six different immigrant gateways: Atlanta, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Washington, D.C. Particular emphasis is placed on the role of living in ethnically concentrated locations and working in ethnically concentrated employment sectors in shaping their choices. The results indicate that living in …
Employment Concentration and Job Quality for Low-Skilled Latino Immigrants
This article examines the formation, determination, and quality of employment concentration for low-skilled Latino immigrants. Comparative evidence is drawn from the three metropolitan areas of Chicago, Los Angeles, and Washington, DC. Using 2000 Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS), gender-specific ethnic niches where Latino immigrants disproportionately concentrate are identified and niche effects on wage earnings are analyzed. This study finds t…
Are Central Cities More Creative? the Intrametropolitan Geography of Creative Industries
This paper examines the location and growth of creative industries within metropolitan areas. In recent years, the creative industries have been increasingly sought after as potential engines of metropolitan economic growth. Although some research has been done on the location decisions by such firms and workers, it has primarily focused on interregional and intermetropolitan disparities. We use establishment-level data to investigate intrametrop…
Immigrant Settlement and Employment Suburbanisation in the US
Two significant trends have occurred in urban areas across the US during recent decades: immigration and the decentralisation of employment. While each trend has been investigated by research, the magnitude of spatial disparity between immigrant settlement patterns and employment location and its change over time has received much less attention. Using a sample of the 60 largest immigrant metropolitan areas, this study uses a spatial mismatch ind…
Counting and Understanding the Contingent Workforce
Contingent workers are a large and increasingly important segment of the US labour force. This paper uses the Contingent Work Supplement of the Current Population Survey to gain some understanding of this workforce and to link that information to larger on-going annual and decennial surveys for sub-national-level estimation and analysis. A typology is developed of the non-standard workforce based on their work arrangement and the industries in wh…
From Los Angeles to Shanghai
This article gauges the applicability of five urban paradigms derived from the urban experience of the Western world, especially from that of Los Angeles, to the urban realities of an East Asian city: Shanghai, China. The five metaphors - world city, cyber city, dual city, hybrid city and sustainable city - are each examined against Shanghai's urban context. The findings are that for Shanghai, and probably other East Asian cities, world city can …
Creativity and Inequality
Utilizing C hinese data for the years of 1998, 2000, 2005, and 2008, this research traces the growth of the creative economy and the enlarging income inequality in C hina's urban economy. While the creative sector now makes up close to 30 percent of C hina's urban private employment, industry‐based earnings disparity has also increased substantively. Provinces with larger creative economy also tend to have higher level of wage inequality among wo…
Ethnic enterprises and community development
L atino Immigration and the Low‐Skill Urban Labor Market
Objectives L atino immigrants continue to enter low‐skilled urban labor markets across metropolitan areas in the U nited S tates. This study provides a dynamic account of the employment competition between L atino immigrant and black workers in the context of an emerging immigrant gateway: the A tlanta M etropolitan S tatistical A rea. Methods This study identifies occupational niches that L atino immigrants and black workers heavily concentrate …
Immigrant employment through the Great Recession
Immigrants continue to settle in metropolitan areas across the United States and bring significant changes to various urban labor markets. Using American Community Survey (ACS) data for 2007 and 2011, we trace the employment outcomes of immigrants compared to native-born workers before and after the recent Great Recession across the 100 largest metropolitan areas and examine individual-level and metropolitan-level factors that shape their employm…
The Representation of Immigrants in Federal, State, and Local Government Work Forces
Transnational activities of immigrant-owned firms and their performances in the USA
Linking migrant enclave residence to employment in urban China
With rapid economic restructuring, large-scale population migration, and market-oriented housing commercialization, China’s urban residents have experienced increasing segregation in both residential spaces and workplaces. Using the sixth census (year 2010) data with detailed geographic information for Shanghai, we document the residential patterns of local residents and migrants and identify the clustered enclaves of migrant workers. The results…
Welcoming Cities
In the face of continued immigration to the United States and federal policy inertia, many local governments have started to adopt their own immigrant-related policies to cope with the newcomers. Among them, welcoming cities represent a new wave of inclusive local government responses that seeks to incorporate immigrants socially and economically and deviates from the previous policies that focus on law enforcement and legal status. In this artic…
Migrant entrepreneurship in China
Neighborhood Diversity and Food Access in a Changing Urban Spatial Structure
This paper examines food access disparity in relation to neighborhood diversity, especially race/ethnicity and poverty in a changing intrametropolitan spatial structure, using the Atlanta Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) as a case study. With detailed grocery store data, this study finds a substantive change in food access between 2003 and 2015 in terms of both the number of grocery stores and the gravity–based accessibility indicator, althoug…
Special issue
Self-employed migrants and their entrepreneurial space in megacities
Towards inclusive urban development? New knowledge/creative economy and wage inequality in major Chinese cities
Immigrant Entrepreneurship in Cities
Changes in Mobile Broadband Infrastructure in Georgia During the Covid−19 Pandemic
The COVID−19 pandemic brought the digital divide to center stage. This article investigates whether the crisis disrupted mobile broadband infrastructure, taking Georgia as a case study. We hypothesize that the pandemic could have slowed down ongoing infrastructure provision initiatives, as in other segments of the economy, or spurred them by bringing renewed attention and resources to overcoming the digital divide. We find that the per capita ant…
The geography of nonstandard employment across U.S. metropolitan areas
The U.S. nonstandard workforce remained at around 10% of the total employed population for the past decades, although the subnational levels reveal variation. Insufficient scholarly attention has been devoted to understanding its spatial distribution and associated causes. This paper addresses this gap by analyzing the contextual factors that help explain the geographic unevenness of the nonstandard workforce across U.S. metropolitan areas from 1…
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