Originally published August 28 2005
Unemployed metro black men have poor chances at finding jobs, study finds
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
A University of Buffalo study shows that unemployed black men in metropolitan areas are unlikely to find jobs in the future because of their location.
The first comprehensive study of the location of unemployed men in metropolitan areas, has found that jobless black men occupy a uniquely disadvantageous "ecological niche" that severely limits their potential for future employment.
The multivariate study, "Race, Residential Segregation, Suburbanization and the Spatial Segregation of Jobless Men," was produced by sociologist Robert L. Wagmiller, Ph.D., at the University at Buffalo.
The study examines the structure of spatial segregation and its effects on both the employment opportunities available to jobless men of different racial and ethnic groups (white, black, Asian and Hispanic) and the challenges they are likely to confront in obtaining and sustaining employment.
In North America, spatial segregation refers to the fact that social and ethnic minorities tend to be segregated in less desirable, inner-city locales while the upper- and middle-class majority dispurses into small, socially homogenous urban neighborhoods or suburbs across the metropolis.
Wagmiller found that highly concentrated joblessness unique among black men is produced by the multidimensional layering of segregation in urban America, and that it also creates unique challenges for the neighborhoods in which these men reside.
In the case of jobless black men, however, the dimensions of their segregation in deteriorating neighborhoods empirically overlap, creating a situation that isolates them from the employed, possible jobs and realistic wages, and diminishes the likelihood that they will be able upgrade their economic and social situations.
Segregation indices were calculated separately for jobless white, black, Hispanic, and Asian men in all independent and primary metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs).
"This concentrated unemployment in these neighborhoods fosters a culture of joblessness and despair that in and of itself impedes achievement and the likelihood of future stable employment," he says.
An assistant professor of sociology at UB, Wagmiller's research and publications focus on the effects of poverty and various public policies on family behavior and the social, emotional and cognitive development of children.
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