Abstract
William Julius Wilson argued in his recent book The T'3) Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Un&cla, and Public Policy that recent changes in urban economic structure at least partially explain the recent social deterioration experienced by inner-city blacks. He specifically identified male joblessness in relation to the demand for marriageable men as an important link between the urban economic structure and social outcome. This paper applies Wilson's ideas in a racially disaggregated contextual analysis of the social problems of unwed adolescent childbearing and single-parent family structure. In addition to Wilson's joblessness variable, which reflects the number of jobs available in an urban economy, this analysis considers a status variable, which reflects the quality of jobs available in an urban economy. Black and white social dislocations exhibit substantial associations with characteristics of urban economies. The effect of urban economic structure on unwed adolescent childbearing and single paren...
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