How the geography of jobs affects unemployment. Why job accessibility is limited for some groups and what it means for anti-poverty policies

David Neumark, economics Chancellor’s Professor, is quoted in Econ Intersect Mar. 1, 2015

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From Econ Intersect:
In 2008, David Neumark, an economics professor at the University of California, Irvine … offered an alternative to the spatial mismatch hypothesis: "The problem is not a lack of jobs, per se, where blacks live, but a lack of jobs into which blacks are hired." They tested this hypothesis … They found that black male employment was much more strongly associated with the density of jobs in which minorities had traditionally been employed than it was for whites.

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