Neighborhood Segregation and Business Outcomes

Mexican Immigrant Entrepreneurs in Los Angeles County

Bibliographic Data

ID2363393
AuthorsD Trevizo (0000-0002-7326-2795, Occidental College, corresponding author), Mary J Lopez (Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA, USA), Mary Lopez (0000-0002-1856-8716, Occidental College)
Year2016
Volume59
Issue3
Pages668-693
Publication date2016-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSociological Perspectives (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0731-1214 • E-ISSN: 1533-8673
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0731121416629992
OpenAlexW2495641497
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited50

With original survey data, we contribute to a discussion of how segregation and poverty affect the performance of Mexican immigrant-owned storefronts in Los Angeles. We find that though both neighborhood segregation and poverty hinder performance as measured by the number of paid employees, poverty is more important. This was true even of businesses operating for 10 or more years. Although we find some support for the 'mixed economy' and 'ethnic enclave' theses, we find more support for the theory of concentrated disadvantages. We conclude that the spatial segregation of Mexicans in Los Angeles hinders the performance of Mexican-owned storefronts because of the social isolation it creates and even more so because segregation concentrates poverty. We also found that both our respondents' class background (in Mexico) and how soon they began to operate business in the formal economy (with legal capital) determines the number of paid employees they hire

Business · Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Ethnic group · Geography · Immigration · Political science · Poverty · Social capital · Sociology · Survey data collection · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Taxation and Compliance Studies

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