Space and unemployment: the labor-market effects of spatial mismatch
Brueckner, Jan K. and Zenou, Yves (2003) Space and unemployment: the labor-market effects of spatial mismatch. Journal of Labor Economics, 21, (1), 242-266.
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The aim of this article is to analyze the effects of housing discrimination on the wages and unemployment rates of black workers. The unemployment effect is first analyzed using a simple minimum-wage model. An efficiency-wage model is then adopted in order to endogenize both unemployment and wages. Under both models, suburban housing discrimination leads to a higher unemployment rate for blacks in the central city than in the suburbs. Under the efficiency-wage model, black wages are also lower in the center. The analysis thus generates a link between unemployment and a seemingly unrelated phenomenon: racial discrimination in the housing market.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| ISSNs: | 0734-306X (print) |
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor |
| Divisions: | University Structure - Pre August 2011 > School of Social Sciences > Economics |
| Item ID: | 33069 |
| Date Deposited: | 15 May 2006 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Jun 2011 11:30 |
| Contributors: | Brueckner, Jan K. (Author) Zenou, Yves (Author) |
| Date: | 2003 |
| Status: | Published |
| Contact Email Address: | yz@soton.ac.uk |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/33069 |
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