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008 070730s2007 mau sb 000 0 eng
010 $a 2007616314
040 $aDLC$cDLC
050 00 $aHB1
100 1 $aHellerstein, Judith K.
245 10 $aSpatial mismatch or racial mismatch?$h[electronic resource] /$cJudith K. Hellerstein, David Neumark, Melissa McInerney.
260 $aCambridge, MA :$bNational Bureau of Economic Research,$cc2007.
490 1 $aNBER working paper series ;$vworking paper 13161
538 $aSystem requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.
538 $aMode of access: World Wide Web.
500 $aTitle from PDF file as viewed on 7/30/2007.
530 $aAlso available in print.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
520 3 $a"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 into which blacks are hired, whether because of discrimination or labor market networks in which race matters. We first report new evidence on the spatial mismatch hypothesis, using data from Census Long-Form respondents. We construct direct measures of the presence of jobs in detailed geographic areas, and find that these job density measures are related to employment of black male residents in ways that would be predicted by the spatial mismatch hypothesis -- in particular that spatial mismatch is primarily an issue for low-skilled black male workers. We then look at racial mismatch, by estimating the effects of job density measures that are disaggregated by race. We find that it is primarily black job density that influences black male employment, whereas white job density has little if any influence on their employment. This evidence implies that space alone plays a relatively minor role in low black male employment rates"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
700 1 $aNeumark, David.
700 1 $aMcInerney, Melissa.
710 2 $aNational Bureau of Economic Research.
830 0 $aWorking paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) ;$vworking paper no. 13161.
856 40 $uhttp://papers.nber.org/papers/w13161