Opportunity, Subculture and the Economic Performance of Urban Ethnic Groups

Martin T. Katzman

American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 1969, vol. 28, issue 4, 351-366

Abstract: Abstract. An attempt is made to account for age‐specific differences in economic performance among 14 ethnic groups living in the nation's nine largest metropolitan areas, by regression analysis of 1950 U.S. Census data. A large proportion of the variance in occupational structure, income, unemployment, and labor force status is accounted for by variations in urban opportunities, relative group size and the members' educational attainment. With the specified economic factors held constant, ethnic factors—nationality and nativity—are associated with residual differences in economic performance. These residual ethnic influences as well as ethnic differences in marital, educational, and labor force status suggest that differences in ethnic subculture have important economic consequences.

Date: 1969
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