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Spatial Influences on the Employment of U.S. Hispanics : Spatial Mismatch, Discrimination, or Immigrant Networks?
Hellerstein, Judith K.; McInerney, Melissa; Neumark, David - 2009
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014205823
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Neighbors and Co-Workers : The Importance of Residential Labor Market Networks
Hellerstein, Judith K.; McInerney, Melissa; Neumark, David - 2009
We specify and implement a test for the importance of network effects in determining the establishments at which people work, using recently-constructed matched employer-employee data at the establishment level. We explicitly measure the importance of network effects for groups broken out by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014205824