Space and unemployment: The Labor-Market effects of spatial mismatch

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Brueckner, JK; Zenou, Y
• 署名单位: University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; University of Southampton
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/344129
• 发表日期: 2003
• 页码: 242-266
• 关键词: hypothesis; DISCRIMINATION; equilibrium; youth; job; search

摘要

The aim of this article is to analyze the effects of housing discrimination on the wages and unemployment rates of black workers. The unemployment effect is first analyzed using a simple minimum-wage model. An efficiency-wage model is then adopted in order to endogenize both unemployment and wages. Under both models, suburban housing discrimination leads to a higher unemployment rate for blacks in the central city than in the suburbs. Under the efficiency-wage model, black wages are also lower in the center. The analysis thus generates a link between unemployment and a seemingly unrelated phenomenon: racial discrimination in the housing market.