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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014205823
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Workplace Segregation in the United States : Race, Ethnicity, and Skill
Hellerstein, Judith K.; Neumark, David - 2007
We study workplace segregation in the United States using a unique matched employer employee data set that we have … created. We present measures of workplace segregation by education and language, and by race and ethnicity, and - since skill … generating workplace segregation by race and ethnicity. We define segregation based on the extent to which workers are more or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014072039
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SPATIAL MISMATCH, IMMIGRANT NETWORKS, AND HISPANIC EMPLOYMENT IN THE UNITED STATES
Hellerstein, Judith K.; McInerney, Melissa P.; Neumark, … - Department of Economics, College of William & Mary - 2010
We study the relationship between Hispanic employment and location-specific measures of the distribution of jobs. We find that it is only the local density of jobs held by Hispanics that matters for Hispanic employment, that measures of local job density defined for Hispanic poor English...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008680267
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Do Labor Market Networks Have An Important Spatial Dimension?
Hellerstein, Judith K.; Neumark, David; Kutzbach, Mark J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
We test for evidence of spatial, residence-based labor market networks. Turnover is lower for workers more connected to their neighbors generally and more connected to neighbors of the same race or ethnic group. Both results are consistent with networks producing better job matches, while the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010796580
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Measuring the importance of labor market networks
Hellerstein, Judith K. (contributor);  … - 2008
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/10003760336
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The Missing Link? Using LinkedIn Data to Measure Race, Ethnic, and Gender Differences in Employment Outcomes at Individual Companies
Berry, Alexander; Maloney, Elizabeth M.; Neumark, David - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Stronger enforcement of discrimination laws can help to reduce disparities in economic outcomes with respect to race, ethnicity, and gender in the United States. However, the data necessary to detect possible discrimination and to act to counter it is not publicly available - in particular, data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014512147
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Measuring the Importance of Labor Market Networks
Hellerstein, Judith K.; McInerney, Melissa; Neumark, David - 2021
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/10013324920
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Spatial Mismatch or Racial Mismatch?
Hellerstein, Judith K. - 2007
We contrast the spatial mismatch hypothesis with what we term the racial mismatch hypothesis - that the problem is not a lack of jobs, per se, where blacks live, but a lack of jobs where blacks live into which blacks are hired. We first report new evidence on the spatial mismatch hypothesis,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465492
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Spatial Mismatch or Racial Mismatch?
Hellerstein, Judith K. - 2009
We contrast the spatial mismatch hypothesis with what we term the racial mismatchhypothesis - that the problem is not a lack of jobs, per se, where blacks live, but a lack of jobsinto which blacks are hired, whether because of discrimination or labor market networks inwhich race matters. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012721193
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Spatial Mismatch or Racial Mismatch?
Hellerstein, Judith K. - 2007
We contrast the spatial mismatch hypothesis with what we term the racial mismatch hypothesis - that the problem is not a lack of jobs, per se, where blacks live, but a lack of jobs where blacks live into which blacks are hired. We first report new evidence on the spatial mismatch hypothesis,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012776804