Geospatial inequality of social capital: comparing the effects of opportunity structures across regions and over time
Journal
Handbook on Inequality and Social Capital
Part Of
Handbook on Inequality and Social Capital
Start Page
81
End Page
96
ISBN (of the container)
9781802202373
9781802202366
DOI (of the container)
10.4337/9781802202373
Date Issued
2024-10-29
Author(s)
Yang-chih Fu
Abstract
Unequal regional development has brought about specific industries that give rise to diverse job markets and lead to imbalanced employment opportunities across geographical areas. While occupational structures shape the overall work status, income, and job potentials for local workers, they also constrain the prospects for building job-based connections through which residents accumulate their social capital. This chapter first reviews the effect of recent advances in sampling surveys and geospatial data on the emerging geospatial approach to social capital. It then evaluates varying strategies for comparing how position-generated social capital varies by the local occupational structures, based on multilevel survey data collected across states, metropolitan areas, and counties in the United States. In addition to integrating occupational data from both individual and local levels, an alternative approach uses repetitive cross-sectional survey data to decompose the factors that contribute to regional gaps in position-generated social capital change in Taiwan over time.
Subjects
Decomposition method
Multilevel analysis
Occupational structures
Position generator
Spatial inequality
Publisher
Edward Elgar Publishing
Type
book part