134
Views
9
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Original Articles

Methods to Test the Spatial Mismatch Hypothesis

Pages 407-434 | Published online: 22 Oct 2015

References

  • Arnott, R. 1998. Economic theory and the spatial mismatch hypothesis. Urban Studies 35:1171–85.
  • Atkinson, R., and Kintrea, K. 2000. Neighbourhood impacts. Policy and Politics 28(1):93–108.
  • Bailey, N., and Turok, I. 2000. Adjustment to job loss in Britain’s major cities. Regional Studies 34:631–53.
  • Boardman, J. D., and Field, S. H. 2002. Spatial mismatch and race differentials in male joblessness: Cleveland and Milwaukee, 1990. Sociological Quarterly 43:237–55.
  • Briggs, X. D. 1998. Brown kids in white suburbs: Housing mobility and the many faces of social capital. Housing Policy Debate 9(1):177–221.
  • Bruzelius, N. 1979. The value of travel time. London: Croom Helm.
  • Burridge, P., and Gordon, I. 1981. Unemployment in the British metropolitan labor areas. Oxford Economic Papers 33:274–97.
  • Cervero, R.;Sandoval, O. S.;and Landis, J. 2002. Transportation as a stimulus of welfare-to-work—Private versus public mobility. Journal of Planning Education and Research 22(1):50–63.
  • Cheshire, P. C. 1979. Spatial unemployment and inequality. In Inflation, development and integration: Essays in honour of A. J. Brown, ed. J. K. Bowers, 263–78. Leeds, U.K.: Leeds University Press.
  • Clarke, H. 1998. International trade, labour migrations and capital flows: Long-term evidence for Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. International Migration 36:383–408.
  • Cohn, S., and Fossett, M. 1996. What spatial mismatch? The proximity of blacks to employment in Boston and Houston. Social Forces 75:557–72.
  • Congdon, P., and Champion, T. 1989. Trends and structure in London’s migration and their relation to employment and housing markets. In Advances in regional demography, ed. P. D. Congdon and P. Batey, 180–204. London: Belhaven.
  • Cooke, T. J. 1997. Geographic access to job opportunities and labor force participation among women and African Americans in the greater Boston metropolitan area. Urban Geography 18:213–27.
  • Cooke, T. J., and Ross, S. L. 1999. Sample selection bias in models of commuting time. Urban Studies 36:1597–611.
  • Cooke, T. J., and Shumway, J. M. 1991. Developing the spatial mismatch hypothesis: Problems of accessibility to employment for low-wage central city labor. Urban Geography 12:310–23.
  • Coombes, M., and Raybould, S. 2001. Commuting in England and Wales: “People”and “place”factors. In Transport planning, logistics, and spatial mismatch, ed. D. Pitfield, 111–133. European Research in Regional Science 11. London: Pion.
  • DeRango, K. 2001. Can commutes be used to test the spatial mismatch hypothesis Urban Studies 38:1521–29.
  • Downs, A. 1999. Contrasting strategies for the economic development of metropolitan areas in the United States and Western Europe. In Urban change in the United States and Western Europe. Comparative analysis and policy, ed. A. A. Summers, P. Chesire, and L. Senn, 15–54. Washington, D.C.: The Urban Institute Press.
  • Ellwood, D. T. 1983. The spatial mismatch hypothesis: Are there teenage jobs missing in the ghetto? Working Paper No. 1188. Cambridge, Mass.: National Bureau of Economic Research.
  • Fernandez, R. M. 1994. Race, space and job accessibility: Evidence from a plant relocation. Economic Geography 70:390–416.
  • Fieldhouse, E. A. 1999. Ethnic minority unemployment and spatial mismatch: The case of London. Urban Studies 36:1569–96.
  • Fieldhouse, E. A., and Gould, M. I. 1998. Ethnic minority unemployment and local labor market conditions in Great Britain. Environment and Planning A 30:833–53.
  • Forrest, R., and Murie, A. 1994. The dynamics of the owner-occupied housing-market in southern England in the late 1980s—A study of new building and vacancy chains. Regional Studies 28:275–89.
  • Forster, C. 1983. Spatial organisation and local unemployment rates in metropolitan Adelaide: Significant issue or spatial fetish Australian Geographical Studies 21:33–48.
  • Gabriel, S. A., and Rosenthal, S. S. 1996. Commutes, neighborhood effects and earnings: An analysis of racial discrimination and compensating differentials. Journal of Urban Economics 40:61–83.
  • Gordon, I. 1987. Evaluating the effects of employment changes on local unemployment. Regional Studies 22:135–47.
  • Gordon, P.;Kumar, A.;and Richardson, H. W. 1989. The spatial mismatch hypothesis: Some new evidence. Urban Studies 26:315–26.
  • Gore, T., and Herrington, A. 1997. New urban transport investment and the Sheffield labor market: Report of “after”surveys and overall assessment. Supertram Impact Series No. 36. Sheffield, U.K.: School of Urban and Regional Studies, Sheffield Hallam University.
  • Green, A. E. 1995. The changing structure, distribution and spatial segregation of the unemployed and economically inactive in Great Britain. Geoforum 26:373–94.
  • Green, A. E. 1998. The geography of earnings and incomes in the 1990s: An overview. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 16:633–47.
  • Hanson, S.;Kominiak, T.;and Carlin, S. 1997. Assessing the impact of location on women’s labor market outcomes: A methodological exploration. Geographical Analysis 29:281–97.
  • Hanson, S., and Pratt, G. 1988. Spatial dimensions of the gender division of labor in a local labor market. Urban Geography 9:180–202.
  • Holzer, H. J. 1991. The spatial mismatch hypothesis: What has the evidence shown Urban Studies 28:105–22.
  • Holzer, H. J.;Ihlanfeldt, K. R.;and Sjoquist, D. L. 1994. Work, search and travel among white and black youth. Journal of Urban Economics 35:320–45.
  • Houston, D. S. 1998. Job proximity and the urban unemployment problem: Do suitable nearby jobs improve neighborhood employment rates? A comment. Urban Studies 35:2353–57.
  • Houston, D. S. 2001. Testing the spatial mismatch hypothesis in the United Kingdom using evidence from firm relocations. In Transport planning, logistics, and spatial mismatch, ed. D. Pitfield, 134–51. European Research in Regional Science 11. London: Pion.
  • Houston, D. S. 2005. Employability, skills mismatch and spatial mismatch in metropolitan labour markets. Urban Studies 42:221–43.
  • Hughes, G., and McCormick, B. 1981. Do council housing policies reduce migration between regions The Economic Journal 91:919–37.
  • Ihlanfeldt, K. R. 1993. Intra-urban job accessibility and Hispanic youth employment rates. Journal of Urban Economics 33:254–71.
  • Ihlanfeldt, K. R., and Sjoquist, D. L. 1989. The impact of job deconcentration on the economic welfare of central city blacks. Journal of Urban Economics 26:110–30.
  • Ihlanfeldt, K. R., and Sjoquist, D. L. 1990. Job accessibility and racial differences in youth employment rates. American Economic Review March:267–76.
  • Ihlanfeldt, K. R., and Sjoquist, D. L. 1998. The spatial mismatch hypothesis: A review of recent studies and their implications for welfare reform. Housing Policy Debate 9:849–92.
  • Ihlanfeldt, K. R., and Young, M. V. 1994. Housing segregation and the wages and commutes of urban blacks: The case of Atlanta fast-food restaurant workers. Review of Economics and Statistics 76:425–33.
  • Immergluck, D. 1998. Job proximity and the urban unemployment problem: Do suitable nearby jobs improve neighborhood employment rates Urban Studies 35(1):7–23.
  • Johnston-Anumonwo, I. 1995. Racial differences in the commuting behavior of women in Buffalo, 1980–1990. Urban Geography 16:23–45.
  • Kain, J. 1968. Housing segregation, Negro unemployment and metropolitan segregation. Quarterly Journal of Economics 82:175–97.
  • Kain, J. 1992. The spatial mismatch hypothesis: Three decades later. Housing Policy Debate 3:371–460.
  • Kasarda, J. D. 1990. City jobs and residents on a collision course: The urban underclass dilemma. Economic Development Quarterly 4:313–19.
  • Kasinitz, P., and Rosenberg, J. 1996. Missing the connection: Social isolation and employment on the Brooklyn waterfront. Social Problems 43:180–96.
  • Kasper, H. 1973. Measuring the labor market costs of housing dislocation. Scottish Journal of Political Economy 20:85–106.
  • Kawabata, M. 2003. Job access and employment among low-skilled autoless workers in U.S. metropolitan areas. Environment and Planning A 35:1651–68.
  • Kwan, M. P. 1999. Gender and individual access to urban opportunities: A study using space-time measures. Professional Geographer 51:210–27.
  • Lee, P. 1994. Housing and spatial deprivation—Relocating the underclass and the new urban poor. Urban Studies 31:1191–209.
  • Leonard, J. S. 1987. The interaction of residential segregation and employment discrimination. Journal of Urban Economics 21:323–46.
  • Lin, G.;Allan, D. E.;and Penning, M. J. 2002. Examining distance effects on hospitalizations using GIS: A study of three health regions in British Columbia, Canada. Environment and Planning A 34:2037–53.
  • Maclennan, D. 1999. Decentralisation and residential choices in European cities: The roles of state and market. In Urban change in the United States and Western Europe. Comparative analysis and policy, ed. A. A. Summers, P. Chesire, and L. Senn, 529–51. Washington, D.C.: Urban Institute Press.
  • Madden, J. F. 1981. Why women work closer to home. Urban Studies 18:181–94.
  • Malpass, P. 1999. Housing policy and practice, 5th ed. London: Macmillan.
  • McGregor, A. 1977. Intra-urban variations in unemployment duration: A case study. Urban Studies 14:303–13.
  • McLafferty, S. 1996. Spatial mismatch and employment in a decade of restructuring. Professional Geographer 48:420–31.
  • McLafferty, S., and Preston, V. 1997. Gender, race and the determinants of commuting: New York in 1990. Urban Geography 18:192–212.
  • McQuaid, R. W.;Greig, M.;and Adams, J. 2001. Unemployed job seeker attitudes towards potential travel-to-work times. Growth and Change 32:355–68.
  • Metcalf, D., and Richardson, R. 1976. Unemployment in London. In The concept and measurement of involuntary unemployment, ed. G. D. N. Worswick, 203–20. London: George Allen and Unwin.
  • Minford, P.;Peel, M.;and Ashton, P. 1987. The housing moras. London: Institute of Economic Affairs.
  • MVA Consultancy. 1987. The valuation of travel time savings. Bristol, U.K.: Policy Press.
  • O’Regan, K. M., and Quigley, J. M. 1998. Where youth live: Economic effects of urban space on employment prospects. Urban Studies 35:1187–1205.
  • Owen, D., and Green, A. 1999. The role of spatial and skills mismatches in understanding the labor market experience of minority ethnic groups in Great Britain. Paper presented at the meeting of the Regional Studies Association, University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain, September.
  • Parks, V. 2004. Access to work: The effects of spatial and social accessibility on unemployment for native-born black and immigrant women in Los Angeles. Economic Geography 80:141–72.
  • Peach, C. 1998. South Asian and Caribbean ethnic minority housing choice in Britain. Urban Studies 35:1657–80.
  • Phillips, D. 1998. Black minority ethnic concentration, segregation and dispersal in Britain. Urban Studies 35:1681–1702.
  • Popkin, S. J.;Rosenbaum, J. E.;and Meaden, P. M. 1993. Labor-market experiences of low-income black women in middle-class suburbs—Evidence from a survey of Gautreaux program participants. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 12:556–73.
  • Raphael, S. 1998. The spatial mismatch hypothesis and black youth joblessness: Evidence from the San Francisco Bay area. Journal of Urban Economics 43:79–111.
  • Rogers, C. L. 1997. Job search and unemployment duration: Implications for the spatial mismatch hypothesis. Journal of Urban Economics 42:109–32.
  • Rosenbaum, J. E. 1995. Changing the geography of opportunity by expanding residential choice—Lessons from the Gautreaux program. Housing Policy Debate 6:231–69.
  • Rosenbaum, J. E., and Harris, L. E. 2001. Residential mobility and opportunities: Early impacts of the moving to opportunity demonstration program in Chicago. Housing Policy Debate 12:321–46.
  • Rosenbaum, J. E.;Popkin, S. J.;Kaufman, J. E.;and Rusin, J. 1991. Social integration of low-income black adults in middle-class white suburbs. Social Problems 38:448–61.
  • Russo, G.;Rietveld, P.;Nijkamp, P.;and Gorter, C. 1996. Spatial aspects of the recruitment behaviour of firms: An empirical investigation. Environment and Planning A 28:1077–93.
  • Shanchez, T. W. 1999. The connection between public transit and employment—The cases of Portland and Atlanta. Journal of the American Planning Association 65:284–96.
  • Shen, Q. 1998. Location characteristics of inner-city neighborhoods and employment accessibility of low-wage workers. Environment and Planning B 25:345–65.
  • Stoll, M. A., and Raphael, S. 2000. Racial differences in spatial job search patterns: Exploring the causes and consequences. Economic Geography 76:201–23.
  • Summers, A. A. 1999. Urban America and western Europe: Are they different? In Urban change in the United States and Western Europe. Comparative analysis and policy, ed. A. A. Summers, P. Chesire, and L. Senn, 1–11. Washington, D.C.: Urban Institute Press.
  • Taylor, B. D., and Ong, P. M. 1995. Spatial mismatch or automobile mismatch? An examination of race, residence and commuting in U.S. metropolitan areas. Urban Studies 32:1453–73.
  • Thomas, J. M. 1998. Ethnic variation in commuting propensity and unemployment spells: Some U.K. evidence. Journal of Urban Economics 43:385–400.
  • Thompson, M. A. 1997. The impact of spatial mismatch on female labor force participation. Economic Development Quarterly 11:138–45.
  • Van Ham, M.;Hooimeijer, P.;and Mulder, C. H. 2001. Urban form and job access: Disparate realities in the Randstad. Tijdschrift Voor Economische En Sociale Geografie 92:231–46.
  • Vipond, J. 1980. Intra-urban unemployment differentials in Sydney, 1971. Urban Studies 17:131–38.
  • Vipond, J. 1984. The intra-urban unemployment gradient: The influence of location on unemployment. Urban Studies 21:377–88.
  • Webster, D. 1994. Home and workplace in the Glasgow conurbatio. Working Paper. Glasgow: Glasgow City Housing.
  • Wilson, W. J. 1987. The truly disadvantaged: The inner city, the underclass and public policy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Wilson, W. J. 1997. When work disappears. The world of the new urban poor. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
  • Wyly, E. K. 1996. Race, gender and spatial segmentation in Twin Cities. Professional Geographer 48:431–44.
  • Zax, J. S. 1989. Quits and race. Journal of Human Resources 24(3):69–93.
  • Zax, J. S. 1990. Race and commutes. Journal of Urban Economics 28:336–48.
  • Zax, J. S. 1991. Compensation for commutes in labor and housing markets. Journal of Urban Economics 30:192–207.
  • Zax, J. S., and Kain, J. F. 1996. Moving to the suburbs: Do relocating companies leave their black employees behind Journal of Labor Economics 14:472–504.
  • Zhang, Z. 1998. Indirect tests of the spatial mismatch hypothesis in the Cleveland PMSA—A labor market perspective. Urban Affairs Review 33:712–23.

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.