Do neighborhoods affect hours worked? Evidence from longitudinal data

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Weinberg, BA; Reagan, PB; Yankow, JJ
• 署名单位: University System of Ohio; Ohio State University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/423158
• 发表日期: 2004
• 页码: 891-924
• 关键词: spatial mismatch hypothesis; metropolitan decentralization; housing segregation; negro employment; mobility experiment; racial-differences; natural experiment; black; unemployment; welfare

摘要

Using a confidential version of the NLSY79, we estimate large effects of neighborhood social characteristics and job proximity on labor market activity. A variety of neighborhood social characteristics are associated with less market work. Social characteristics have nonlinear effects, with the greatest impact in the worst neighborhoods. Social characteristics are also more important for less-educated workers. Exploiting the panel aspects of our data, we find that estimates that do not account for neighborhood selection on the basis of time-invariant and time-varying unobserved individual characteristics substantially overstate the social effects of neighborhoods but understate the effects of job access.