City Effects on Socioeconomic Achievements
The Case of Large Cities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5248151 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Charles W Mueller (0000-0002-8182-3281, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1974 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 652 |
| Publication date | 1974-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-1224 • E-ISSN: 1939-8271 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2094312 |
| OpenAlex | W2334980502 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 11 |
Community context is examined as having a possible causal influence on an individual's occupational status attainment and income. Additive city effects, between-city differences in mean achievement levels, and nonadditive city effects, between-city differences in how important determinants influence these achievements, are examined. The data used represent probability samples from fifteen of the largest U.S. cities. Contrary to evidence from past research, neither additive nor nonadditive city effects are found for occupational attainment. For income, nonadditive effects are not observed; the rather weak additive effects found are further reduced in magnitude when cost of living differences are controlled for. These findings for nonadditivity are interpreted to mean that across large U.S. communities the processes whereby socioeconomic statuses are achieved are homogeneous. Finding no additive effects indicates the relative unimportance of city contextual differences, but also suggests for occupational attainment, the importance of various equilibrating processes operating to match city population compositions with city opportunity structures
Geography · Population · Regional science · Socioeconomic status · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Demography · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction · Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
The Wisconsin Model of Socioeconomic Achievement
Industrial Change and Urban Joblessness
Segmentation theory applied to local, regional and spatial labour markets
City Size and Ethnic Discrimination
Urban Ecology
Ethnicity, Geography, and Occupational Achievement of Hispanic Men in the United States
Neighborhood Effects
Three Methods of Estimating a Model of Group Effects
Assessing Group Effects
Confronting Sociological Theory with Data
The Journey to Work and Gender Inequality in Earnings
White, Black, and Hispanic Female Youths in Central City Labor Markets
The Status Attainment Paradigm
Effects of Community on Status Attainment
Frontier and urban-industrial explanations of US occupational mobility in the late 1800s
White, black, and Hispanic male youths in central city labor markets
Socioeconomic background and achievement
Regional Differences in the Structure of Earnings
Investment in Human Capital and Personal Income Distribution
Socioeconomic Variables in a Large City
The American occupational structure
The Socio-Economic Status of Cities and Suburbs
Social Characteristics of Urban and Rural Communities, 1950
Community Rank Stratification
Multiple regression as a general data-analytic system
Occupational Mobility in Six Cities
Labor Mobility in Six Cities
| Unique citing works | 16 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,31 |
| Citation span | 1975 - 2005 (31) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |