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Peer-Reviewed Publications

Elliott, James R. and Jeremy Pais. 2006. "Race, Class, and Hurricane Katrina: Social Differences in Human Responses to Disaster." Social Science Research 35(2): 295-321.[Link]

Smith, Ryan A. and James R. Elliott. 2005. "Family Structure and Organizational Power: A Multi-Racial/Multi-Ethnic Analysis of Women and Men." Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race 2(1): 69-90.[Link]

Elliott, James R. and Ryan A. Smith. 2004. "Race, Gender and Workplace Power." American Sociological Review 69(3): 365-386. [Link]

Elliott, James R. 2004. "The Work of Cities: Underemployment and Urban Change in Late-Century America." Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development and Research 7(1): 107-134. [Link]

Elliott, James R., Kevin Fox Gotham and Melinda J. Milligan. 2004. "Framing the Urban: Struggles over HOPE VI and the New Urbanism in an Historic City." City & Community 3(4): 373-394. [Link]

Milligan, Melinda J., Kevin Fox Gotham, and James R. Elliott. 2004. "HOPE VI, New Urbanism, and the Utility of Frames: A Reply to Melendez and Coats." City & Community 3(4): 373-394. [Link]

Elliott, James R. and Marilyn S. Joyce. 2004. "The Effects of Race and Family Structure on Women's Spatial Relationship to the Labor Market." Sociological Inquiry 74(3): 411-435. [Link]

Elliott, James R. and Marcel Ionescu. 2003. "Post-War Immigration to the Deep South Triad: What Can a Peripheral Area Tell Us about Immigrant Settlement and Adjustment?" Sociological Spectrum 23(2): 159-180. [Link]
Smith, Ryan A. and James R. Elliott. 2002. "Does Ethnic Concentration Influence Access to Authority? An Examination of Contemporary Urban Labor Markets." Social Forces 81(1): 255-279. [Link]

Elliott, James R. 2001 "Referral Hiring and Ethnically Homogeneous Jobs: How Prevalent Is the Connection and for Whom?" Social Science Research 30: 401-425. [Link]

Elliott, James R. and Mario Sims 2001. "Ghettos and Barrios: The Impact of Neighborhood Ethnicity and Poverty on Job Matching among Blacks and Latinos." Social Problems 48(3): 341-361. [Link]

Elliott, James R. and Ryan A. Smith 2001. "Ethnic Matching of Supervisors to Subordinate Work Groups: Findings on Bottom-Up Ascription and Social Closure." Social Problems 48(2): 258-276. [Link]
Elliott, James R. 2000. "Class, Race and Job Matching in Contemporary Urban Labor Markets." Social Science Quarterly 81(4): 1036-1052.
Elliott, James R. 1999. "Social Isolation and Labor Market Insulation: Network and Neighborhood Effects on Less-Educated Urban Workers." Sociological Quarterly 40(2): 199-216.

Elliott, James R. 1999. "Putting Global Cities in Their Place: Underemployment in America's Postwar Urban System." Urban Geography 20(2): 95-115.

Elliott, James R. 1999. "Urban Restructuring Revisited: Organizational and Labor Market Changes during the 1980s." Sociological Perspectives 42(3): .

Elliott, James R. 1997. "Cycles within the System: Metropolitanization and Internal Migration in the U.S., 1965-1990." Urban Studies 34(1): 21-41. [Link]

Elliott, James R. and Marc J. Perry. 1996. "Metropolitanizing Nonmetro Space: Population Redistribution and Emergent Metropolitan Areas, 1965-1990." Rural Sociology 61(3): 497-512.

Book Reviews

Review of Headhunters: Matchmaking in the Labor Market by William Finlay and James E. Coverdill in Work and Occupations (Fall, 2002).