Job Displacement and the Duration of Joblessness: The Role of Spatial Mismatch

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Andersson, Fredrik; Haltiwanger, John C.; Kutzbach, Mark J.; Pollakowski, Henry O.; Weinberg, Daniel H.
• 署名单位: University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC); Harvard University
• 刊物名称: REVIEW OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0034-6535
• DOI: 10.1162/REST_a_00707
• 发表日期: 2018-05
• 页码: 203-218
• 关键词: employment outcomes; labor-market; accessibility; unemployment; SPACE; opportunity; hypothesis; creation; search; issues

摘要

This paper presents a new approach to the measurement of the effects of spatial mismatch that takes advantage of matched employeremployee administrative data integrated with a person-specific job accessibility measure, as well as demographic and neighborhood characteristics. We focus on a group of job searchers for plausibly exogenous reasons: lower-income workers with strong labor force attachment separated during a mass layoff. Our results support the spatial mismatch hypothesis. We find that better job accessibility significantly decreases the duration of joblessness among lower-income displaced workers, especially for blacks, women, and older workers.