Racial discrimination and redlining in cities
Racial discrimination and redlining in cities
The aim of this paper is to bring together spatial and racial discrimination in an urban framework. While racial discrimination is against black workers, spatial discrimination (or redlining) is against residents living in the city-center. When the relative access cost for black workers to employment centers is sufficiently large, a city is segregated by race. When the relative access cost is sufficiently small, a city is segregated by employment status. By examining the interaction between land and labor markets, the authors find that both race and space are responsible for the high unemployment rate among blacks
urban equilibrium, access costs, spatial mismatch, urban unemployment
260-285
Zenou, Yves
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Boccard, Nicolas
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2000
Zenou, Yves
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Boccard, Nicolas
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Zenou, Yves and Boccard, Nicolas
(2000)
Racial discrimination and redlining in cities.
Journal of Urban Economics, 48 (2), .
(doi:10.1006/juec.1999.2166).
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to bring together spatial and racial discrimination in an urban framework. While racial discrimination is against black workers, spatial discrimination (or redlining) is against residents living in the city-center. When the relative access cost for black workers to employment centers is sufficiently large, a city is segregated by race. When the relative access cost is sufficiently small, a city is segregated by employment status. By examining the interaction between land and labor markets, the authors find that both race and space are responsible for the high unemployment rate among blacks
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Published date: 2000
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urban equilibrium, access costs, spatial mismatch, urban unemployment
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Local EPrints ID: 33072
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/33072
ISSN: 0094-1190
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