When Work Moves: Job Suburbanization and Black Employment

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Miller, Conrad
• 署名单位: University of California System; University of California Berkeley
• 刊物名称: REVIEW OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0034-6535
• DOI: 10.1162/rest_a_01174
• 发表日期: 2023-09
• 页码: 1055-1072
• 关键词: spatial mismatch hypothesis; racial-inequality; segregation; unemployment; WEALTH; TRADE; RACE; gap

摘要

This paper examines whether job suburbanization caused declines in black employment rates from 1970 to 2000. I find that black workers are less likely than white workers to work in observably similar jobs that are located further from the central city. Using evidence from establishment relocations, I find that this relationship reflects at least in part the causal effect of job location. At the local labor market level, I find that job suburbanization is associated with substantial declines in black employment rates relative to white employment rates. Evidence from nationally planned highway infrastructure corroborates a causal interpretation.