The shape of immigrant local labor markets : the effects of social and spatial accessibility -- Mapping immigrant residence and work -- How local the immigrant labor market? -- Connecting neighborhood and home to ethnic labor market segregation -- Connecting neighborhood and home to black and...

Why does the level of economic activity vary so much across space? One reason given is agglomeration economies, meaning that a firm's or household's production costs (of market and home goods, respectively) are lower when production is carried out in close proximity to other firms and...

Metropolitan areas vary widely in employment distribution and labour accessibility. Comparing four US metropolitan areas - Atlanta, Boston, Phoenix and Washington, DC - it is found that Atlanta and Washington, DC suffer from low labour accessibility compared with Boston and Phoenix. Moreover,...

The delimitation of functional spatial units or functional territories is an important topic in regional science and economic geography, since the empirical verification of many causal relationships is affected by the size and shape of these areas. This paper proposes a two-step method for the...