Exceptionalism and theorizing spatial inequality: Segregation research on cities in China

Segregation Research on Urban China

Inequality, residential segregation by income, and mortality in US cities.

STUDY OBJECTIVE This study was designed to discover whether the relation between income inequality and population death rates within the United States was mediated by the degree of residential segregation between rich and poor. DESIGN Using data for 276 metropolitan areas in the USA, residential segregation was defined as the extent to which people with different levels of income live in the ...

Research exceptionalism.

Research involving human subjects is much more stringently regulated than many other nonresearch activities that appear to be at least as risky. A number of prominent figures now argue that research is overregulated. We argue that the reasons typically offered to justify the present system of research regulation fail to show that research should be subject to more stringent regulation than othe...

Marketization, occupational segregation, and gender earnings inequality in urban China.

This article analyzes a large sample of the 2005 population mini-census data and prefecture-level statistics of China to investigate gender earnings inequality in the context of economic marketization, paying special attention to the changing role of occupational segregation in the process. We approximate marketization by employment sectors and also construct an index of marketization at the pr...

Spatial Segregation in Demography: A Short Review

  Abstract. Spatial has always been an inherent component of demography, and demographic processes are inherently spatiotemporal. Recognizing the importance of spatial in general and spatial segregation in particular in demographic analysis has created new positions in demography and its conceptual and analytical frameworks. The notion of spatial segregation refers to the distribution of social...