Jimy M Sanders
Biographic Data
| ID | 3631378 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jimy M Sanders |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jimy M |
| FAMILY NAME | Sanders |
| SIGNATURE | SANDERS J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Carolina |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1102 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Ethnic/Informal Economy
Ethnic/informal economies are inconsistently defined by scholars. This slows progress in explicating the social underpinnings of ethnic/informal economies and in understanding how these economic systems affect the socioeconomic well‐being of members of various ethnic groups. Fortunately, there is a common theme to the definitions one finds in the literature. All variants convey a sense of economic action embedded in solidaristic, coethnic social …
Complement or competition
Ethnic/Informal Economy
Ethnic/informal economies are inconsistently defined by scholars. This slows progress in explicating the social underpinnings of ethnic/informal economies and in understanding how these economic systems affect the socioeconomic well$@#*^%#@#hyphen;being of members of various ethnic groups. Fortunately, there is a common theme to the definitions one finds in the literature. All variants convey a sense of economic action embedded in solidaristic, c…
Occupational Growth and the Expansion of Educationally-Related Earning Gaps
I develop an argument that facilitates understanding of how occupational growth impinges on the relationship between education and earnings. Much of the literature focuses on workers employed at the ends of the occupational hierarchy, whereas my contribution applies to workers positioned all along the occupational hierarchy. I argue that an undersupply of affordable, suitable labor in expanding occupations encourages a division of labor among wor…
Nativity, human capital, and government employment
Asian Immigrants' Reliance on Social Ties in a Multiethnic Labor Market
We study how the social capital and closure properties of family- and ethnic-based social networks influence the incorporation of immigrants into their host society In so doing, we examine the relationship between immigrants' reliance on social ties and their employment. Data collected through ethnographic depth interviews of Asian immigrants in Los Angeles indicate that reliance on social ties usually operates informally, as when job seekers con…
Ethnic Boundaries and Identity in Plural Societies
This paper reviews studies of ethnicity in plural societies. The literature concentrates on the social networks of ethnic groups, the use of social capital derived from these networks, and ethnic identity. I give particular attention to studies that consider how interpersonal networks within ethnic communities influence the degree of closure in social boundaries and the degree to which ethnic identity is retained. Most of the studies considered h…
Understanding the diversity of immigrant incorporation
This article develops the concept of forms of capital as the basis of a model of immigrant incorporation. The model sets out the manner in which the social, financial, and human-cultural capital of immigrant families predict the sorting of immigrants into various labour market trajectories. For example, immigrants arriving with low stocks of financial and human-cultural capital are most likely to find employment in the ethnic economy, whereas imm…
Extended Stratification
The article outlines a theoretical system of extended stratification in order to account for differences between immigrants and natives in the amount of time individuals devote to paid work and the number of family members participating in paid work. The extended stratification theory contends that because people have different socio-economic frames of reference, they vary in their willingness to work long hours in an effort to achieve modest imp…
Immigrant Self-Employment
We examine how self-employment among Asian and Hispanic immigrants is affected by family composition and human capital/class resources. Because of collective interests and strong personal ties the family facilitates the pooling of labor power and financial resources. Enterprising immigrants draw on these resources when establishing and operating small businesses. Our findings also show the importance of human capital/class resources in accounting…
The refugees who came in from the cold
The First Suburban Chinatown
Preface Introduction: A New and Dynamic Community 1. Ramona Acres to the Chinese Beverly Hills: Demographic Change 2. Enter the Dragon: Economic Change 3. I Don't Feel at Home Anymore: Social and Cultural Change 4. Community Fragmentation and the Slow-Growth Movement 5. Controlled Growth and the Official-English Movement 6. City with a Heart? 7. The Politics of Realignment 8. Theoretical Perspectives on Monterey Park Conclusion: From Marginal to …
Job Transitions in an Immigrant Metropolis
Les AA. examinent l'evolution de la situation sociale des asiatiques aux Etats-Unis a Los Angeles. Dans cette ville multi-ethnique les situations sociales semblent moins figees. L'analyse multivariee permet de montrer qu'apres une succession de divers emplois et apres un certain laps de temps, les immigrants quittent l'economie ethnique informelle et s'engagent dans l'economie formelle, ce qui signifie, pour eux, des gains en matiere de revenu. L…
Chinatown
Problems in Resolving the Enclave Economy Debate
D ebates in the social sciences frequently go unresolved they persist as long as the debating parties sustain independent research programs and secure outlets for their publications (Alexander and Columy forthcoming). In part, this reflects the discursive character of theoretical discourse between and within academic traditions and schools of thought. Yet even when social scientists attempt to verify hypotheses through empirical tests, resolution…
Short- and Long-Term Macroeconomic Returns to Higher Education
This study examines relationships between expenditures on higher education and economic production in the United States. Aggregate time-series models yield three main findings. First, the private economy appears to be better stimulated by governmental spending on higher education than by governmental spending in general. Second, higher education expenditures on organized research have favorable and long-lasting effects on private production. Thir…
New' Structural Poverty
Proponents of the new structural poverty thesis contend that “overly generous” meanstested transfer payments increase poverty by encouraging female headship and welfare dependency. Skeptics of this view concede that transfer programs have serious faults, but argue that their overall effect is to reduce poverty. Focusing on states' Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) programs, this article examines how well these competing hypotheses ac…
Labor Force Response to Insured Unemployment
This paper examines short and long term labor force responses to unemployment insurance. The findings conform to the conventional view that comparatively generous unemployment insurance programs encourage joblessness over the short term. Over the longer term, however, a distributive lag occurs wherein joblessness inversely relates to past durations of insured unemployment. Hence, unemployment benefits appear to reduce joblessness over the long te…
Public Transfers
Limits of Ethnic Solidarity in the Enclave Economy
Private and social wage expansion in the advanced market economies
Targeted Public Funding
There is little mystery as to why the publicly subsidised expansion of college enrolments has been common during postwar years: popular demand that college opportunities be made more universal has motivated government officials to establish programmes promoting enrolment expansion. It should also be recognised that such programmes are often carried out to complement more comprehensive public efforts designed to meet national needs. A concentratio…
The road to parity
1985). The road to parity: Determinants of the socioeconomic achievements of Asian Americans. Ethnic and Racial Studies: Vol. 8, Ethnicity and Race in the U.S.A: Toward the Twenty-First Century, pp. 75-93
The Public Economy and Economic Growth in Western Market Economies
This essay analyzes the impact of two welfare states-one for households and the other forfirms-on economic growth in twelve advanced market economies between 1962 and 1983. We find that both welfare states contain stimulative and depressing forms of spending. Transfers in support of household income stimulate growth, while public production of goods and services largely consumed by households depresses growth. Transfers to firms may have a predom…
Graduate Training and Initial Job Placement
This study examines the extent to which professional credentials accrued during graduate school are related to postgraduate employment. The undergraduate and graduate records, demographic characteristics, and initial job placements of 711 Ph.D. recipients from the University of California, Santa Barbara, are analyzed. We find that several aspects of graduate training (e.g., holding research assistantships) have greater influence on the initial pl…
Limits of Ethnic Solidarity in the Enclave Economy
Immigrant Self-Employment
We examine how self-employment among Asian and Hispanic immigrants is affected by family composition and human capital/class resources. Because of collective interests and strong personal ties the family facilitates the pooling of labor power and financial resources. Enterprising immigrants draw on these resources when establishing and operating small businesses. Our findings also show the importance of human capital/class resources in accounting…
Understanding the diversity of immigrant incorporation
This article develops the concept of forms of capital as the basis of a model of immigrant incorporation. The model sets out the manner in which the social, financial, and human-cultural capital of immigrant families predict the sorting of immigrants into various labour market trajectories. For example, immigrants arriving with low stocks of financial and human-cultural capital are most likely to find employment in the ethnic economy, whereas imm…
Ethnic Boundaries and Identity in Plural Societies
This paper reviews studies of ethnicity in plural societies. The literature concentrates on the social networks of ethnic groups, the use of social capital derived from these networks, and ethnic identity. I give particular attention to studies that consider how interpersonal networks within ethnic communities influence the degree of closure in social boundaries and the degree to which ethnic identity is retained. Most of the studies considered h…
Job Transitions in an Immigrant Metropolis
Les AA. examinent l'evolution de la situation sociale des asiatiques aux Etats-Unis a Los Angeles. Dans cette ville multi-ethnique les situations sociales semblent moins figees. L'analyse multivariee permet de montrer qu'apres une succession de divers emplois et apres un certain laps de temps, les immigrants quittent l'economie ethnique informelle et s'engagent dans l'economie formelle, ce qui signifie, pour eux, des gains en matiere de revenu. L…
Asian Immigrants' Reliance on Social Ties in a Multiethnic Labor Market
We study how the social capital and closure properties of family- and ethnic-based social networks influence the incorporation of immigrants into their host society In so doing, we examine the relationship between immigrants' reliance on social ties and their employment. Data collected through ethnographic depth interviews of Asian immigrants in Los Angeles indicate that reliance on social ties usually operates informally, as when job seekers con…
Problems in Resolving the Enclave Economy Debate
D ebates in the social sciences frequently go unresolved they persist as long as the debating parties sustain independent research programs and secure outlets for their publications (Alexander and Columy forthcoming). In part, this reflects the discursive character of theoretical discourse between and within academic traditions and schools of thought. Yet even when social scientists attempt to verify hypotheses through empirical tests, resolution…
The road to parity
1985). The road to parity: Determinants of the socioeconomic achievements of Asian Americans. Ethnic and Racial Studies: Vol. 8, Ethnicity and Race in the U.S.A: Toward the Twenty-First Century, pp. 75-93
The Public Economy and Economic Growth in Western Market Economies
This essay analyzes the impact of two welfare states-one for households and the other forfirms-on economic growth in twelve advanced market economies between 1962 and 1983. We find that both welfare states contain stimulative and depressing forms of spending. Transfers in support of household income stimulate growth, while public production of goods and services largely consumed by households depresses growth. Transfers to firms may have a predom…
Extended Stratification
The article outlines a theoretical system of extended stratification in order to account for differences between immigrants and natives in the amount of time individuals devote to paid work and the number of family members participating in paid work. The extended stratification theory contends that because people have different socio-economic frames of reference, they vary in their willingness to work long hours in an effort to achieve modest imp…
Private and social wage expansion in the advanced market economies
Nativity, human capital, and government employment
Gender Differences in the Attainment of Doctorates
The study of gender inequality in academia is characterized by various conflicting positions (see Cole, 1979; Reskin, 1980). While it is clear such inequality exists, our knowledge of how it comes about is limited. Debate over the extent and interpretation of gender inequality in the academic labor market is exacerbated by this situation. The preliminary analysis reported here suggests that the inequality stems, in part, from different graduate t…
Complement or competition
New' Structural Poverty
Proponents of the new structural poverty thesis contend that “overly generous” meanstested transfer payments increase poverty by encouraging female headship and welfare dependency. Skeptics of this view concede that transfer programs have serious faults, but argue that their overall effect is to reduce poverty. Focusing on states' Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) programs, this article examines how well these competing hypotheses ac…
Graduate Training and Initial Job Placement
This study examines the extent to which professional credentials accrued during graduate school are related to postgraduate employment. The undergraduate and graduate records, demographic characteristics, and initial job placements of 711 Ph.D. recipients from the University of California, Santa Barbara, are analyzed. We find that several aspects of graduate training (e.g., holding research assistantships) have greater influence on the initial pl…
Faculty Desegregation and Student Achievement
The priority attached to inner city student desegregation has often become diminished with the onset of mandatory faculty desegregation. Consequently, students tend to be substantially more segregated than teachers in urban schools. Moreover, faculties in predominately minority schools typically have higher turnover and less experience than faculties in other schools. In the largest district initially placed under court-ordered faculty desegregat…
Gender Differences in the Attainment of Doctorates
The study of gender inequality in academia is characterized by various conflicting positions (see Cole, 1979; Reskin, 1980). While it is clear such inequality exists, our knowledge of how it comes about is limited. Debate over the extent and interpretation of gender inequality in the academic labor market is exacerbated by this situation. The preliminary analysis reported here suggests that the inequality stems, in part, from different graduate t…
Faculty Desegregation and Student Achievement
The priority attached to inner city student desegregation has often become diminished with the onset of mandatory faculty desegregation. Consequently, students tend to be substantially more segregated than teachers in urban schools. Moreover, faculties in predominately minority schools typically have higher turnover and less experience than faculties in other schools. In the largest district initially placed under court-ordered faculty desegregat…
Targeted Public Funding
There is little mystery as to why the publicly subsidised expansion of college enrolments has been common during postwar years: popular demand that college opportunities be made more universal has motivated government officials to establish programmes promoting enrolment expansion. It should also be recognised that such programmes are often carried out to complement more comprehensive public efforts designed to meet national needs. A concentratio…
The road to parity
1985). The road to parity: Determinants of the socioeconomic achievements of Asian Americans. Ethnic and Racial Studies: Vol. 8, Ethnicity and Race in the U.S.A: Toward the Twenty-First Century, pp. 75-93
The Public Economy and Economic Growth in Western Market Economies
This essay analyzes the impact of two welfare states-one for households and the other forfirms-on economic growth in twelve advanced market economies between 1962 and 1983. We find that both welfare states contain stimulative and depressing forms of spending. Transfers in support of household income stimulate growth, while public production of goods and services largely consumed by households depresses growth. Transfers to firms may have a predom…
Graduate Training and Initial Job Placement
This study examines the extent to which professional credentials accrued during graduate school are related to postgraduate employment. The undergraduate and graduate records, demographic characteristics, and initial job placements of 711 Ph.D. recipients from the University of California, Santa Barbara, are analyzed. We find that several aspects of graduate training (e.g., holding research assistantships) have greater influence on the initial pl…
Private and social wage expansion in the advanced market economies
Limits of Ethnic Solidarity in the Enclave Economy
Labor Force Response to Insured Unemployment
This paper examines short and long term labor force responses to unemployment insurance. The findings conform to the conventional view that comparatively generous unemployment insurance programs encourage joblessness over the short term. Over the longer term, however, a distributive lag occurs wherein joblessness inversely relates to past durations of insured unemployment. Hence, unemployment benefits appear to reduce joblessness over the long te…
Public Transfers
New' Structural Poverty
Proponents of the new structural poverty thesis contend that “overly generous” meanstested transfer payments increase poverty by encouraging female headship and welfare dependency. Skeptics of this view concede that transfer programs have serious faults, but argue that their overall effect is to reduce poverty. Focusing on states' Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) programs, this article examines how well these competing hypotheses ac…
Problems in Resolving the Enclave Economy Debate
D ebates in the social sciences frequently go unresolved they persist as long as the debating parties sustain independent research programs and secure outlets for their publications (Alexander and Columy forthcoming). In part, this reflects the discursive character of theoretical discourse between and within academic traditions and schools of thought. Yet even when social scientists attempt to verify hypotheses through empirical tests, resolution…
Short- and Long-Term Macroeconomic Returns to Higher Education
This study examines relationships between expenditures on higher education and economic production in the United States. Aggregate time-series models yield three main findings. First, the private economy appears to be better stimulated by governmental spending on higher education than by governmental spending in general. Second, higher education expenditures on organized research have favorable and long-lasting effects on private production. Thir…
Chinatown
Job Transitions in an Immigrant Metropolis
Les AA. examinent l'evolution de la situation sociale des asiatiques aux Etats-Unis a Los Angeles. Dans cette ville multi-ethnique les situations sociales semblent moins figees. L'analyse multivariee permet de montrer qu'apres une succession de divers emplois et apres un certain laps de temps, les immigrants quittent l'economie ethnique informelle et s'engagent dans l'economie formelle, ce qui signifie, pour eux, des gains en matiere de revenu. L…
The First Suburban Chinatown
Preface Introduction: A New and Dynamic Community 1. Ramona Acres to the Chinese Beverly Hills: Demographic Change 2. Enter the Dragon: Economic Change 3. I Don't Feel at Home Anymore: Social and Cultural Change 4. Community Fragmentation and the Slow-Growth Movement 5. Controlled Growth and the Official-English Movement 6. City with a Heart? 7. The Politics of Realignment 8. Theoretical Perspectives on Monterey Park Conclusion: From Marginal to …
Immigrant Self-Employment
We examine how self-employment among Asian and Hispanic immigrants is affected by family composition and human capital/class resources. Because of collective interests and strong personal ties the family facilitates the pooling of labor power and financial resources. Enterprising immigrants draw on these resources when establishing and operating small businesses. Our findings also show the importance of human capital/class resources in accounting…
The refugees who came in from the cold
Extended Stratification
The article outlines a theoretical system of extended stratification in order to account for differences between immigrants and natives in the amount of time individuals devote to paid work and the number of family members participating in paid work. The extended stratification theory contends that because people have different socio-economic frames of reference, they vary in their willingness to work long hours in an effort to achieve modest imp…
Understanding the diversity of immigrant incorporation
This article develops the concept of forms of capital as the basis of a model of immigrant incorporation. The model sets out the manner in which the social, financial, and human-cultural capital of immigrant families predict the sorting of immigrants into various labour market trajectories. For example, immigrants arriving with low stocks of financial and human-cultural capital are most likely to find employment in the ethnic economy, whereas imm…
Asian Immigrants' Reliance on Social Ties in a Multiethnic Labor Market
We study how the social capital and closure properties of family- and ethnic-based social networks influence the incorporation of immigrants into their host society In so doing, we examine the relationship between immigrants' reliance on social ties and their employment. Data collected through ethnographic depth interviews of Asian immigrants in Los Angeles indicate that reliance on social ties usually operates informally, as when job seekers con…
Ethnic Boundaries and Identity in Plural Societies
This paper reviews studies of ethnicity in plural societies. The literature concentrates on the social networks of ethnic groups, the use of social capital derived from these networks, and ethnic identity. I give particular attention to studies that consider how interpersonal networks within ethnic communities influence the degree of closure in social boundaries and the degree to which ethnic identity is retained. Most of the studies considered h…
Ethnic/Informal Economy
Ethnic/informal economies are inconsistently defined by scholars. This slows progress in explicating the social underpinnings of ethnic/informal economies and in understanding how these economic systems affect the socioeconomic well$@#*^%#@#hyphen;being of members of various ethnic groups. Fortunately, there is a common theme to the definitions one finds in the literature. All variants convey a sense of economic action embedded in solidaristic, c…
Occupational Growth and the Expansion of Educationally-Related Earning Gaps
I develop an argument that facilitates understanding of how occupational growth impinges on the relationship between education and earnings. Much of the literature focuses on workers employed at the ends of the occupational hierarchy, whereas my contribution applies to workers positioned all along the occupational hierarchy. I argue that an undersupply of affordable, suitable labor in expanding occupations encourages a division of labor among wor…
Nativity, human capital, and government employment
Economics (20 works) · Political science (16 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (14 works) · Economic growth (12 works) · Demographic economics (10 works) · Labour economics (10 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (10 works) · Geography (8 works) · Ethnic group (7 works)