Abstract
This study investigated the premise that black metropolitan inhabitants incur economic and social disparities corresponding to three distinct residential segregation dimensions; extent, pattern, and jurisdiction. A sample of 109 tracts were extracted from The 1980 Census of Population and Housing for the city of Cleveland. Characteristics of Cleveland's population, labor and housing market serve as explanatory variables for a multiple regression analysis encompassing nine separate equations. In general, segregation appeared to purport economic disparities. Moreover, income disparities were positively associated with a more centralized pattern of black residences, whereas the measure relating to the extent of segregation was positively correlated with occupational disparities; especially those requiring more
Advisor
Galster, George
Department
Urban Studies
Recommended Citation
Friedman, Susan L., "The Cost of Segregation to Metropolitan Blacks within the Cleveland MSA" (1988). Senior Independent Study Theses Archive. Paper 136.
https://openworks.wooster.edu/independentstudyarchive/136
Publication Date
1988
Degree Granted
Bachelor of Arts
Document Type
Senior Independent Study Thesis
© Copyright 1988 Susan L. Friedman