Race, Space, and Job Accessibility
Evidence from a Plant Relocation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4042402 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Roberto M Fernandez (0000-0002-4126-4980, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 70 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 390 |
| Publication date | 1994-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Economic Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-0095 • E-ISSN: 1944-8287 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/143730 |
| OpenAlex | W2330967796 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 31 |
| References cited | 22 |
Although recent studies have shown support for the spatial mismatch explanation of minorities' employment difficulties, key questions remain unresolved. This paper is the first report of a longitudinal study designed to shed light on this important hypothesis by studying a Milwaukee food-processing plant that is currently moving from the city's Central Business District to the suburban ring. I document the size of the impending disruption in both distance and travel time and, based on a simple model of time valuation, estimate the costs of the increased commuting time in monetary terms for minorities and nonminorities. The results show that the plant relocation has the potential to induce mismatches between workers' residences and jobs, and that these mismatches will be most severe for minorities. I conclude with a discussion of the implications of the findings for future research on the spatial mismatch hypothesis
Central business district · Demographic economics · Economics · Geography · Race (biology) · Relocation · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Spacetime · Spatial mismatch · Transport engineering · Valuation (finance) · Computer Science · Engineering · Finance · Housing Market and Economics · Spatial and Panel Data Analysis · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
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The private sector as a sociological laboratory
Skill-Biased Technological Change and Wage Inequality
Chapter 48 Race and gender in the labor market
Spatial Mismatch Hypothesis
Workers’ relationships to their union
Incorporating components of American pluralism into a course on the geography of the USA
Geographic Access to Job Opportunities and Labor-Force Participation Among Women and African Americans in the Greater Boston Metropolitan Area
Housing affordability and commute distance
Explaining the Recent Employment Gap between Black and White Women
Neighborhood Development in the Metropolitan Economy
Metropolitanization and territorial scales
Spatial mismatch in post-reform urban China
Transportation and Migrant Adjustment in Georgia
Car ownership and the labor market of ethnic minorities
The Mechanisms of Spatial Mismatch
Spatial Mismatch is not Always a Central-city Problem
Job Proximity and the Urban Employment Problem
Spatial Restructuring to Facilitate Shorter Commuting
The spatial distribution of occupational prestige in metropolitan Tel Aviv
Job Relocation and the Racial Gap in Unemployment in Detroit and Chicago, 1980 to 1990
Spatial mismatch and youth unemployment in US cities
Investigating Urban Spatial Mismatch Using Job-Housing Indicators to Model Home-Work Separation
Tolerance to Commuting in Urban Household Location Choice
Geography and the Immigrant Division of Labor
Learning in Place
Methods to Test the Spatial Mismatch Hypothesis
Mobilité, accessibilité et cohésion sociale
Space in the Study of Labor Markets
The 'ripple effect' of schedule control
Race, spatial mismatch, and job accessibility
American apartheid
Black Milwaukee
Consumer choice of dwelling, neighborhood and public services
Job Accessibility and the Employment and School Enrollment of Teenagers
Housing Segregation, Negro Employment, and Metropolitan Decentralization
Gender Differences in Work-Trip Length
Spatial Dimensions of the Gender Division of Labor in a Local Labor Market
Black Suburbanization
Commutes, quits, and moves
Race and commutes
Compensation for commutes in labor and housing markets
Work, Search, and Travel among White and Black Youth
Hypersegregation in U.S. Metropolitan Areas
Why Women Work Closer to Home
The Spatial Mismatch Hypothesis
Toward Estimating the Incidence of Journey-to-Work Costs
Measuring the Labour Market Costs of Housing Dislocation
Urban Industrial Transition and the Underclass
Job Search and the Occupational Segregation of Women
Suburban Pink Collar Ghettos
Suburbanization and Segregation in U.S. Metropolitan Areas
Dynamic Dependencies
| Unique citing works | 31 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,97 |
| Citation span | 1994 - 2022 (29) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 28 |