Jamie Goodwin-White
Jamie Goodwin-White
Associate Professor
Ladder Faculty
Office: 1255 BUNCHE HALL
Email: goodwin-white@geog.ucla.edu
Phone: 3108251071
Biography
(PhD, Washington, 2005) is an assistant professor with research interests in migration and immigration, inequality, labor markets, and social statistics. Dr. Goodwin-White teaches courses on population geography, social geography, inequality, race and ethnicity, and migration.
My current work falls into two main subfields.
The first involves a long-standing interest in the connections between social and spatial mobility. The papers below look at the relationship between internal migration and wages for immigrants and their offspring via selection models. The first two emphasize the changing importance of historic place characteristics. The Social Science Quarterly paper examines the selection of new versus traditional immigrant destinations for wages of immigrants and the second generation.
Goodwin-White, J. (2015). “Is Social Mobility Spatial? Characteristics of Immigrant Metros and Second Generation Outcomes, 1940-70 and 1970-2000.” Population, Place and Space
Goodwin-White, J. (2014). “The Shaping of Selection: Secondary Migration and Historic Immigrant Geographies”. California Center for Population Research Working Paper. UCLA. (Revised and resubmitted to Population, Place and Space)
Goodwin-White, J. (2012). “Emerging Immigrant Geographies: Racial Wages and Migration Selectivity”. Social Science Quarterly 93(3): 779-98.
Previous versions are available as pre-publication working papers at the California Center for Population Research.
The second strand of my current work investigates spatial contexts of labor market inequality and is associated with a National Science Foundation grant: Uneven Geographies from Recession to Recovery. My first publication from this grant estimates how metro-level profiles of wage inequality between major ethnic/racial/gender groups change between 2000 and 2010. My second publication on this project estimates counterfactual gender wage distributions pre- and post-recession for top metropolitan areas, decomposing these for returns to “fair” vs “unfair” inequality, and concludes that gender wage inequality is spatially polarizing, rather than declining.
Goodwin-White, J. (forthcoming). “Go West, Young Woman? The Geography of the Gender Wage Gap Through The Great Recession.” Economic Geography.
Goodwin-White, J. (2014). “Hanging Together or Falling Apart?: Estimating City Wage Inequality of Race, Gender, and Ethnicity, 2000-2010”. Canadian Journal of Regional Science 37(1/3): 27-39.
Research
My research focuses on how social and economic inequalities are generated, maintained, and reproduced geographically. I concentrate on immigration and internal migration patterns as manifestations of spatial inequality, and also on the ways in which geographic contexts condition integration for various immigrant groups and their adult children in the United States. I also conduct research on labor market inequalities, internal migration, immigration, and social mobility in Ireland and the UK.
My current work falls into two main subfields.
The first involves a long-standing interest in the connections between social and spatial mobility. The papers below look at the relationship between internal migration and wages for immigrants and their offspring via selection models. The first two emphasize the changing importance of historic place characteristics. The Social Science Quarterly paper examines the selection of new versus traditional immigrant destinations for wages of immigrants and the second generation.
Goodwin-White, J. (forthcoming in Population, Space and Place). "Is Social Mobility Spatial? Characteristics of Immigrant Metros and Second Generation Outcomes, 1940-70 and 1970-2000."
Goodwin-White, J. (2014). “The Shaping of Selection: Secondary Migration and Historic Immigrant Geographies”. California Center for Population Research Working Paper. UCLA.
Goodwin-White, J. (2012). “Emerging Immigrant Geographies: Racial Wages and Migration Selectivity”. Social Science Quarterly 93(3): 779-98.
Previous versions are available as pre-publication working papers at the California Center for Population Research.
The second strand of my current work investigates spatial contexts of labor market inequality and is associated with a National Science Foundation grant: Uneven Geographies from Recession to Recovery. My first publication from this grant estimates how metro-level profiles of wage inequality between major ethnic/racial/gender groups change between 2000 and 2010.
Goodwin-White, J. (2014). “Hanging Together or Falling Apart?: Estimating City Wage Inequality of Race, Gender, and Ethnicity, 2000-2010”. Canadian Journal of Regional Science 37(1/3): 27-39.
Selected Publications
- Goodwin-White, J. (forthcoming). “Go West, Young Woman? The Geography of the Gender Wage Gap Through The Great Recession.” Economic Geography.
- Goodwin-White, J. (2015). “Is Social Mobility Spatial? Characteristics of Immigrant Metros and Second Generation Outcomes, 1940-70 and 1970-2000.” Population, Space and Place.
- Goodwin-White, J. (2014). “Hanging Together or Falling Apart?: Estimating City Wage Inequality of Race, Gender, and Ethnicity, 2000-2010”. Canadian Journal of Regional Science 37(1/3): 27-39.
- Goodwin-White, J. (2013). “Context, Scale, and Generation: Constructions of Belonging from Boom to Bust.” In Gilmartin, M and A White (eds), Ireland in a global world: Migrations. Manchester University Press.
- Goodwin-White, J. (2012). “Spatial Dynamics of Segmentation and Segregation in Ireland’s Changing Economy”. California Center for Population Research Working Paper. UCLA.
- Goodwin-White, J. (2012). “Emerging Immigrant Geographies: Racial Wages and Migration Selectivity”. Social Science Quarterly 93(3): 779-98.
- Goodwin-White, J. (2009). “Emerging Contexts of Second Generation Labor Markets in the United States.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 35(7): 1105-28.
- Goodwin-White, J. (2008). “Placing Progress: Contextual Inequality and Immigrant Incorporation in New York and Los Angeles.” Economic Geography 88(3): 303-41.
- Raymer, J., Giuiletti, C., and J. Goodwin-White. (2008). “White and Non-White Migration between Area Groups in England and Wales.” Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute Working Paper A08/02, 20pp. University of Southampton, UK.
- Goodwin-White, J. (2007). “Dispersion or Concentration for the 1.5 Generation? Destination Choices of the Children of Immigrants in the US”. Population, Space and Place 13: 313-31.
- Goodwin-White, J. and L. Simpson. (2006). “Radical demography”. Radical Statistics: The Journal 91(1), 24.
- Ellis, M., and J. Goodwin-White (2006). “1.5 Generation Internal Mobility: Dispersion from States of Immigration”. International Migration Review 40 (4): 899-926.
Grants & Awards
2014-15 UCLA Faculty Development Award
2012-13 UCLA Faculty Diversity Award
2005-07 Research Councils UK Research Fellowship, University of Southampton
2002-05 National Institute of Child Health and Development Fellowship. Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology (CSDE), University of Washington.
Graduate Students
Dylan Connor (completed 2017)
Flavia Lake
Heather Agnew (committee member)
Will Rosales (Sociology — committee member)
