The spatial mismatch hypothesis associates high unemployment rates among inner-city blacks with the spatial dispersion of employment to suburban job markets. An alternative explanation for high unemployment is the skills mismatch hypothesis, which argues that skill demands in urban labor markets...

Factor analytic methodology in geography and planning has been limited to system description. The conventional approach of searching for an underlying vector basis is germane for exploratory type research, but it is not directly applicable for normative purposes. Target rotation provides an...

Only in the past few years has any attention been directed toward oblique rotations and higher-order analysis in factor analytic research. This paper focuses upon the utility of higher-order analysys by comparing factorial-ecology results for a single set of variables over two differing systems...