Between 1975 and 1982, Korean immigrants entered the entrepreneurial population of Los Angeles in great numbers. They brought new capital and entrepreneurial vigor into the county's economy, and helped to stabilize neighborhoods, improve public education, and counteract street crime. The main...

Examines the sociological causes for differences in small business formation and other personal finance trends among Chinese and Japanese immigrant communities and African-Americans in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Incorporating both a broad overview of the experience of...

The literature about residential settlement patterns gives little or no attention to the supply side of the picture ofhousing access and neighborhood formation.However, outside this literature, the Logan and Molotch theory of the "urban growth machine" offers the best explanation of how...