How the geography of jobs affects unemployment. Why job accessibility is limited for some groups and what it means for anti-poverty policies
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How the geography of jobs affects unemployment. Why job accessibility is limited for some groups and what it means for anti-poverty policies
- March 1, 2015
- David Neumark, economics Chancellor’s Professor, is quoted in Econ Intersect Mar. 1, 2015
From Econ Intersect:
In 2008, David Neumark, an economics professor at the University of California, Irvine
… offered an alternative to the spatial mismatch hypothesis: "The problem is not a
lack of jobs, per se, where blacks live, but a lack of jobs into which blacks are
hired." They tested this hypothesis … They found that black male employment was much
more strongly associated with the density of jobs in which minorities had traditionally
been employed than it was for whites.
For the full story, please visit http://econintersect.com/b2evolution/blog1.php/2015/03/01/how-the-geography-of-jobs-affects-unemployment-why-job-accessibility-is-limited-for-some-groups-and-what-it-means-for-anti-poverty-policies.
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