Inequality In Labor Market Areas

Joachim Singelmann

touko 2019 · Routledge

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During the past two decades, many attempts have been made to refocus stratification research and the study of inequality. The contributors to this volume have a long-term concern with the importance of space and locality. Many of them belonged to a research project during the early 1980s that had as one of its main aims the analysis of labor force

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Joachim Singelmann is professor and chair of the Department of Sociology at Louisiana State University. He is the author of From Agriculture to Services (Sage, 1978) and co-author of Das Ende der Klassengesellschaft? (Transfer Verlag, 1990). His primary research areas are the labor force, inequality, and migration. His current projects include a study of the transformation from central planning to markets in Eastern Germany.

Forrest A. Deseran is associate professor of sociology and director of the Center for Life Course and Population Studies at Louisiana State University. He is editor of the U.S. Rural Sociological Society Rural Studies Series for Westview Press and has published in U.S. and international sociology journals. His current research focuses on household structure, local labor markets, and the labor force in the U.S.