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articles: Is the labor market tighter outside the ghetto?

Ihlanfeldt, Keith R. - In: Papers in Regional Science 78 (1999) 4, pp. 341-363

The purposes of this article are twofold. First, a critical review is provided of the traditional approach to empirically investigating the effects of labor market spatial mismatch on minority workers. Second, in lieu of analyzing the effects of mismatch as has been done in previous studies, the...

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How Important is Access to Jobs? Old Question - Improved Answer

Åslund, Olof; Östh, John; Zenou, Yves - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2006

We study the impact of job proximity on individual employment and earnings. The analysis exploits a Swedish refugee dispersal policy to get exogenous variation in individual locations. Using very detailed data on the exact location of all residences and workplaces in Sweden, we find that having...

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How important is access to jobs? Old question - improved answer

Åslund, Olof; Östh, John; Zenou, Yves - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2006

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Inefficient equilibrium unemployment in a duocentric economy with matching frictions

LEHMANN, Etienne; LEDEZMA, Paola L. MONTERO; LINDEN, … - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2013

This article examines unemployment disparities and efficiency in a densely populated economy with two job centers and workers distributed between them. We introduce commuting costs and search-matching frictions to deal with the spatial mismatch between workers and firms. In equilibrium, there...

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Ethnic unemployment rates and frictional markets

Gobillon, Laurent; Rupert, Peter; Wasmer, Etienne - In: Journal of Urban Economics 79 (2014) C, pp. 108-120

The unemployment rate in France is roughly 6 percentage points higher for African immigrants than for natives. In the US the unemployment rate is approximately 9 percentage points higher for blacks than for whites. Commute time data indicates that minorities face longer commute times to work,...

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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...

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Education, mobility and the college wage premium

Lkhagvasuren, Damba - In: European Economic Review 67 (2014) C, pp. 159-173

Motivated by large educational differences in geographic mobility, this paper considers a simple dynamic extension of Roy׳s (1951) model and analyzes it using new evidence on net versus excess mobility and the individual-level relationship between mobility and wages. According to the model, the...

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Ethnic differentials on the labor market in the presence of asymmetric spatial sorting: Set identification and estimation

Rathelot, Roland - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2014

This paper aims to isolate the ethnic gap on the labor market that can be attributed to ethnicity and not to differences in individual characteristics or residential location. Controlling for residential location is important as ethnic minorities often live in distressed neighborhoods. It is...

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Localisation and concentration in urban labour markets and submarkets in the metropolitan areas in central Mexico

Nieto, Alejandra Trejo; Paniagua, Paola Domínguez - 2016

from the Central Business District (CBD), improving accessibility to jobs. This paper deals with the SMH due to the …

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Correcting agglomeration economies: How air pollution matters

Drut, Marion; Mahieu, Aurélie - 2015

, without accounting for the environmental impact of a better accessibility. On the other side, several studies (Graham, 2007 …; Rice et al., 2006) show that new transportation infrastructures or policies have a positive effect on accessibility, thus … may be induced by enhanced accessibility, and generates higher levels of polluting emissions (Goodwin, 1999; Litman, 2011 …

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