This paper examines the status of Mexican labor in Los Angeles since 1970, the period of extraordinary growth. Historically, mexican workers were an integral but subordinate part of the Southwest in general (Briggs, Fogel and Schmidt 1977; Barrera 1987) and Los Angeles in particular (Romo 1983), but...

Conventional views of comparative advantage hold that capital-inten-sive manufacture should be located in industrialised nations, while labour-intensive aspects should locate in developing nations. This view has had to come to terms with the fact that countries such as South Korea, Taiwan and...

This paper uses data from the metropolitan samples of the American Housing Survey in 1977-78 and 1985 to examine the commute patterns of whites, blacks and Hispanics in US metropolitan areas, with a particular focus on the commutes of workers living in predominantly minority residential areas....

The research demonstrated innovative methods for using GPS-enhanced travel and activity monitoring to measure, analyze, and verify highly resolved travel patterns of low-income households for multiple modes and days. Previous studies suggest the travel of low-income households varies...