Employment rates of Hispanic males in the United States are considerably lower than employment rates of whites. In the … data used in this paper, the Hispanic male employment rate is 61 percent, compared with 83 percent for white men.1 The … question of the employment disadvantage of Hispanic men likely has many parallels to the question of the employment …

that wages of blacks rise less with agglomeration in the workplace location, measured as employment density per square … kilometer, than do white wages. This pattern holds even though our method allows for non-parametric controls for the effects of … age, education, and other demographics on wages, for unobserved worker skill as proxied by residential location, and for …

We test the effects of labor market networks defined by residential neighborhoods on re-employment following mass … employers by other network members. These network measures are linked to more rapid re-employment following mass layoffs, and to … re-employment at neighbors’ employers. We also find evidence that network connections – especially those that provide …