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Qingfang Wang
Assistant Professor
OFFICE: 421 McEniry
PHONE: 704-687-5943
E-MAIL: qwang7@uncc.edu
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TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS:
• Urban labor market
• Race/ethnicity, immigration
• Research Methods
DEGREES:
Ph.D. (2005) Geography, University of Georgia
B.S. (1994) Economics, Tianjin University of Finance and Economics,
P.R. China
PROFILE:
I have broad interests in the intersections between immigration,
race/ethnicity, urban spatial form, and economic welfare especially
in urban labor markets. My main research focus has been about the
ethnic division of labor in the US cities, i.e., how existing native
and immigrant employment concentrations (industrial, occupational
and spatial) change over time and space under global contexts, and
how “space” matters in this process, and what are the
impacts on housing market, interracial income disparities and other
socioeconomic consequences. Funded by National Science Foundation
and the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, my dissertation
and recent research have been examining San Francisco Bay area in
the social-spatial dynamics of ethnic labor markets.
My recent interests also focus on ethnic and immigrant enterprises
especially in newly emergent immigration gateway cities, such as
Atlanta, Washington D.C. and Charlotte, NC. Some questions are very
intriguing and significant for me to investigate: whether/how do
ethnic neighborhoods/communities have great influences on the start-up
and growth of ethnic enterprises, and thus the socioeconomic upward
of ethnic minority and immigrant workers? How would the newly emerged
immigration gateway cities differ from the traditional immigration
destinations? How would globalization and new economy transform
the labor market experiences of ethnic entrepreneurs? Most of my
past experiences have been dealt with (Multinomial) Logistic regression,
Multilevel Modeling, and spatial statistics; however, I am very
ambitious to use both qualitative and quantitative research methods
in the near future. Any form of inspiration, collaboration, and
suggestions are welcome.
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