Labor market marginalization of youth in San Antonio, Texas

Poverty among inner-city residents is associated with their marginal status in the labor market. Marginalization in the labor market begins during you th when important educational and employment decisions are made. Analysis o f 1990 U.S. Census wet data for San Antonio, Texas identifies the lack of a high school diploma, poverty, non-employment, and non-enrollment in school as conditions of marginality for youth, Spatial patterns of youth labor ma rket marginalization show concentrations in the inner city and in sectors o n the West, South, and Eastside. Regression analysis reveals that levels of youth marginalization are associated with neighborhood context represented by the employment, behavioral, and ethnic: characteristics of the overall residential population of a census tract.