Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of day labor worker centers in improving wages and working conditions of migrant casual workers in the USA. Design/methodology/approach – The paper reports the results of a survey of worker center executive directors and senior...

This paper examines the effect of immigrant job searchers on the employment and wages of native and immigrant groups in Los Angeles. Using data from the 1994 Los Angeles Survey of Urban Inequality (LASUI), we use variation in the spatial job search patterns of immigrant groups to estimate the...

<title>Abstract</title> The Low‐Income Housing Tax Credit, the nation's largest subsidy program for low‐income rental housing, has financed more than 1.4 million housing units since 1987. Like earlier federal programs that subsidized housing built by private owners, this program does not guarantee...

Regional workforce development collaborations have emerged as a notable approach to tackle complex problems within workforce development systems. While much of the existing research on workforce development documents the importance of promoting regional workforce development collaborations,...

Renewed scholarly interest in clusters of firms has increased attention on institutions—including business associations—that serve them. Scholars investigating “labor market intermediaries†also wonder to what extent employers' associations conduct workforce development....

<bold>O</bold>ver two decades ago, the term “restructuring” became a popular label for describing the tumultuous political‐economic and spatial transformations that were unfolding across the global urban system. As Edward Soja (1987: 178; italics in original) indicated in a classic formulation: <disp-quote specific-use="indent">...</italic></disp-quote>

Drawing on an innovative, representative survey of workers in Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York City, the authors analyze minimum wage, overtime, and other workplace violations in the low-wage labor market. They document significant interindustry variation in both the mix and the prevalence of...

This article explores the urban labor market consequences of large-scale incarceration, a policy with massively detrimental implications for communities of color. Case study evidence from Chicago suggests that the prison system has come to assume the role of a significant (urban) labor market...

The paper reflects on the methodological challenges involved in research on the movement and mutation of fast-moving policies, through globalizing networks and across translocal settings. Inspired by ‘follow the thing’ methods and by the global ethnography program, it outlines a distended...