Residential segregation and spatial distribution of a non-labor force population: the needy, elderly and disabled ( USA).

Processes of urban change were hypothesized to have created a segregated residential distribution typified by a concentration of disadvantaged and chronically unemployed individuals in decaying inner cities and the employed middle class in suburbs. This hypothesis was tested in one heavily urbanized area for a non- labour force population of needy elderly and disabled persons. Results showed a non-random pattern of residential segregation between this group and the labour force. The needy elderly and disabled were found to reside predominantly in inner cities and were spatially associated with the presence of older, low-rent, high-density housing.- Author