Intergenerational mobility of low-income youth in metropolitan and non-metropolitan America: A spatial analysis

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作者
Weber, Bruce [1 ]
Fannin, J. Matthew [2 ]
Miller, Kathleen [3 ]
Goetz, Stephan [4 ,5 ]
机构
[1] Oregon State Univ, Dept Appl Econ, Corvallis, OR 97331 USA
[2] Louisiana State Univ, Dept Agr Econ & Agribusiness, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA
[3] Univ Missouri, Truman Sch Publ Affairs, Columbia, MO USA
[4] Penn State Univ, Dept Agr Econ Sociol & Educ, Philadelphia, PA USA
[5] Northeast Reg Ctr Rural Dev, Philadelphia, PA USA
来源
REGIONAL SCIENCE POLICY AND PRACTICE | 2018年 / 10卷 / 02期
关键词
absolute upward mobility; intergenerational economic mobility; place-based policy; rural;
D O I
10.1111/rsp3.12122
中图分类号
P9 [自然地理学]; K9 [地理];
学科分类号
0705 ; 070501 ;
摘要
Average absolute upward mobility is greater for youth in non-metropolitan counties than in metropolitan counties. What may be more important for upward mobility of low-income youth, however, is not whether their county is metro or non-metro but rather how far their county is from metropolitan centres. We test this hypothesis and find support for the conclusion that distance is a significant predictor of upward mobility, that remoteness from central metro counties is associated with higher upward mobility. We also find that the association of other factors with upward mobility differs between metro and non-metro counties. The shares of single-mother families and income inequality have a smaller negative association with upward mobility in metro than non-metro counties. The high school dropout rate, on the other hand, has a much larger negative association with upward mobility in metro than in non-metro areas, suggesting that the quality of the school system matters more in urban areas. Better spatial job matching and higher social capital, by contrast, are more positively correlated with mobility in non-metro counties than in metro counties, suggesting that specific place-based rural policies may have more potential to increase upward mobility in rural areas. Resumen El promedio de la movilidad ascendente absoluta es mayor para los jovenes en los condados no metropolitanos que en los metropolitanos. Sin embargo, algo que puede ser mas importante para la movilidad ascendente de los jovenes de bajos ingresos no es si su condado es metropolitano o no lo es, sino mas bien lo lejos que esta su condado de los centros metropolitanos. Se puso a prueba esta hipotesis y se encontro evidencia con la que concluir que la distancia es un predictor significativo de la movilidad ascendente y que la lejania de los condados metropolitanos centrales esta asociada con una mayor movilidad ascendente. Tambien se encontro que la asociacion de otros factores con la movilidad ascendente difiere entre los condados metropolitanos y no metropolitanos. La proporcion de familias monoparentales y la desigualdad de ingresos tienen una asociacion negativa menor con la movilidad ascendente en los condados metropolitanos que en los que no lo son. Por otro lado, la tasa de abandono de la escuela secundaria tiene una asociacion negativa mucho mayor con la movilidad ascendente en las areas metropolitanas que en las no metropolitanas, lo que sugiere que la calidad del sistema escolar es mas importante en las zonas urbanas. Por el contrario, una mejor correspondencia espacial y un mayor capital social se correlacionan mas positivamente con la movilidad en condados no metropolitanos que en los condados metropolitanos, lo que sugiere que las politicas rurales especificas basadas en el lugar pueden tener un mayor potencial para aumentar la movilidad ascendente en las zonas rurales.
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